Woodpecker Flash

Microphone Sound Spectrum now Included in Woodpecker Open Source ActionScript 3 Classes

Dan Zen — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:19:55 +0000

The microphone is now supported in the Woodpecker open source ActionScript sound spectrum classes. Just download the zip file and see the mic example.

You need to make a Microphone object in your file (as shown in the sample) and then pass the fact that you want to use the mic as the last parameter to Woodpecker.

var myMic:Microphone = Microphone.getMicrophone();
var mic:Boolean = true;
new WoodPecker(clip, type, num, size, freq, dragable, mic);

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WOODPECKER – Flash Sound Animation Classes Examples

Dan Zen — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:11:22 +0000

“It was unbelievable to see Woodpecker animate mouths to audio!”

Woodpecker animates DisplayObjects to sound frequency or wave forms. It is a wrapper file for the ComputeSpectrum in Flash which is quite tricky and provides many options for designers to help them animate any number of clips to sound for visualizations and lip synching or moving objects in a scene based on ambient sounds.

WOODPECKER SAMPLES
Frequency Bars
Woodpecker and Worm
Feathers Logo
Eyes
Lip Synching

Microphone Spectrum Support in Flash CS5

Dan Zen — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:55:52 +0000

Wow! What a great release – Adobe Flash Player 10.1 / Adobe Flash CS5:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/jchurch_flashplayer10.1.html

SOME NEW FLASH 10.1 FEATURES:

1. Multitouch (Goose)
2. Compute Spectrum on the Microphone (Woodpecker)
3. Accelerometer (Penguin)

FOR WOODPECKER SOUND ANIMATION CLASSES:

In past versions of Flash, we have only had sound frequency and waveform data for MP3 and FLV’s in Flash. We only had the throughput (similar to volume) for the microphone. In Flash 10.1 we can now animate to frequency and wavelength of microphone input! This is amazing!!

We can now use Woodpecker to:

animate to live bands!
animate to people talking in a room!
animate to live chats!

Download Woodpecker Sound Animation Classes for Flash and try it out!

All the best!

WoodPecker for Flash Launches to Help Designers and Developers Animate to Sound Wave and Frequency Spectrum in Adobe Flash

Dan Zen — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:55:51 +0000

WoodPecker is an open source Flash package of classes that lets you animate to sound frequency or wave form of MP3 or FLV sounds. You can easily make a frequency bars for instance (bass mid treble) or make visualizations to sound. Multiple clips supported.

Visit http://woodpeckerflash.wordpress.com and download the zip at the left. There are full instructions on how to install the classes and examples on how to use them. See the CODE page and the VIDEO pages for an introduction and to see the samples in action.

FRIENDS AND DONATIONS
Please let us know if you use WoodPecker and we will add you to the Friends area at left. If you use WoodPecker for a commercial venture and would care to donate that would be super!

FEATHERS
WoodPecker is one of a selection of open source solutions called Flash Feathers available at http://flashfeathers.wordpress.com.

Dan Zen

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