Animate Object With Music

[rvr1982]

I remember, a few years ago, a teacher of mine explaining us how to scale an object depending on the sound of an mp3. He showed us how to create those funny "sound bars" you can see in winamp, but in 3D. He did that with 3DS max.

I'm very interested in getting a little bit help to get started with this technic, as a few friends of mine are playing in bands, but still have no video-clips.

I was wondering if there's something similar to this in maya. searches in maya 2008, on this forum and on google gave me no results.

Thanks a lot for all help you can give,

rvr.

(I hope my english isn't getting worse ^^)

[joojaa]

QUOTE(rvr1982 @ 08/19/09, 09:55 PM) [snapback]313089[/snapback]
I was wondering if there's something similar to this in maya. searches in maya 2008, on this forum and on google gave me no results.

Yes but it really depends. sound isnt very straightforward you see. Not like images. Its a number of thinsg athet are intertwined ist like trying to extract a picture from a overexposed photo.

[tom-maples]

Yeah, MP3s are pretty tricky as there are lots of factors, amplitude being only one of them (what the moving bars are usually based on). The closest i have found is a MEL script somebody wrote on here for linking MIDI track amplitude to objects in maya (presumably by driven key attributes) to animate them, but in all honesty this is a one-trick pony with not a massive amount of scope as it becomes predictable very quickly! Music animation is about the strike of the drum with a fast response and a slow preparation, all sorts of complicated splines that can't be remedied by a preset "Loud=stick touches drum" mentality.
Hope you find what you are looking for, if not best get started doing it by hand
Good luck

Tom