DemCupcakesYo wrote:

Volume sounds like a better name, but +1.

(loudness)

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

jTron wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Advanced description: It returns the frequency of the currently playing sound, as a number between 0-100. 0 meaning no sound, and 100 being the highest possible frequency/loudness possible

Do you mean intensity? Frequency is another matter entirely and many members of the community would also like that block, but I don't think it's what you're suggesting.

Nope. It does in fact return frequency. In AS3 there is a sound mixer class that returns the frequency. I read all of the documentation. I converted the value it returns to be between 0 and 100.

Frequency does NOT relate to volume. It returns one or the other, but it cannot return both in one variable.

I know. It returns the frequency. Volume is the way that sounds are ordered on a scale from quiet to loud. You can't take a sound and “get” it's volume. That is just impossible. Just like the current loudness block returns not technically the loudness of the microphone, this block uses the word loudness to represent a more technical term that younger users might not understand.

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

jTron wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Advanced description: It returns the frequency of the currently playing sound, as a number between 0-100. 0 meaning no sound, and 100 being the highest possible frequency/loudness possible

Do you mean intensity? Frequency is another matter entirely and many members of the community would also like that block, but I don't think it's what you're suggesting.

Nope. It does in fact return frequency. In AS3 there is a sound mixer class that returns the frequency. I read all of the documentation. I converted the value it returns to be between 0 and 100.

Frequency does NOT relate to volume. It returns one or the other, but it cannot return both in one variable.

I know. It returns the frequency. Volume is the way that sounds are ordered on a scale from quiet to loud. You can't take a sound and “get” it's volume. That is just impossible. Just like the current loudness block returns not technically the loudness of the microphone, this block uses the word loudness to represent a more technical term that younger users might not understand.

No, frequency is the pitch of the sound–how high it sounds. Amplitude determines the volume.

davidkt wrote:

Support, but I think it should be called sound volume to be consistent with the other blocks.

(volume)

Thepuzzlegame wrote:

davidkt wrote:

Support, but I think it should be called sound volume to be consistent with the other blocks.

Then it could be confused with

(volume)

davidkt wrote:

Support, but I think it should be called sound volume to be consistent with the other blocks.

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

jTron wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Advanced description: It returns the frequency of the currently playing sound, as a number between 0-100. 0 meaning no sound, and 100 being the highest possible frequency/loudness possible

Do you mean intensity? Frequency is another matter entirely and many members of the community would also like that block, but I don't think it's what you're suggesting.

Nope. It does in fact return frequency. In AS3 there is a sound mixer class that returns the frequency. I read all of the documentation. I converted the value it returns to be between 0 and 100.

Frequency does NOT relate to volume. It returns one or the other, but it cannot return both in one variable.

I know. It returns the frequency. Volume is the way that sounds are ordered on a scale from quiet to loud. You can't take a sound and “get” it's volume. That is just impossible. Just like the current loudness block returns not technically the loudness of the microphone, this block uses the word loudness to represent a more technical term that younger users might not understand.

No, frequency is the pitch of the sound–how high it sounds. Amplitude determines the volume.

I used the computeSpectrum() method in AS3. I don't know if you understand what that means but read the 3rd paragraph on this page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7d17.html I used that exact same method. Hence the reason that I call it frequency.

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

jTron wrote:

Mr_sprite wrote:

Advanced description: It returns the frequency of the currently playing sound, as a number between 0-100. 0 meaning no sound, and 100 being the highest possible frequency/loudness possible

Do you mean intensity? Frequency is another matter entirely and many members of the community would also like that block, but I don't think it's what you're suggesting.

Nope. It does in fact return frequency. In AS3 there is a sound mixer class that returns the frequency. I read all of the documentation. I converted the value it returns to be between 0 and 100.

Frequency does NOT relate to volume. It returns one or the other, but it cannot return both in one variable.

I know. It returns the frequency. Volume is the way that sounds are ordered on a scale from quiet to loud. You can't take a sound and “get” it's volume. That is just impossible. Just like the current loudness block returns not technically the loudness of the microphone, this block uses the word loudness to represent a more technical term that younger users might not understand.

No, frequency is the pitch of the sound–how high it sounds. Amplitude determines the volume.

I used the computeSpectrum() method in AS3. I don't know if you understand what that means but read the 3rd paragraph on this page: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ActionScript/3.0_ProgrammingAS3/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d118a9b90204-7d17.html I used that exact same method. Hence the reason that I call it frequency.

“amplitude arranged by frequency”
If you look at the chart, the amplitudes (how loud it is!) aren't in order, because it returns the frequency (the pitch!)

The_Grits wrote:

+1 Haven't used it yet, but love the concept!

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

I know this topic has just been necrobumped but I want to say no support.

My project already features a pretty swaggy visualizer - no extra blocks required. If novice scratchers want to make their own visualizer, they should recognize that making a visualizer, like a lot of things on scratch that people want to do (3D, multiplayer, etc) requires advanced knowledge and hard work, not wishing for a new block to do what they want. No offense to OP
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Mr_sprite wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

I know this topic has just been necrobumped but I want to say no support.

My project already features a pretty swaggy visualizer - no extra blocks required. If novice scratchers want to make their own visualizer, they should recognize that making a visualizer, like a lot of things on scratch that people want to do (3D, multiplayer, etc) requires advanced knowledge and hard work, not wishing for a new block to do what they want. No offense to OP
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Awesome project! But the thing is, yours is rather laggy and hard to set up, and mine is directly in AS3 code and therefore runs much faster.

Not that I expect this to ever be in Scratch. Nothing in these forums that is not a bugfix is added…

But whatever.

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

I know this topic has just been necrobumped but I want to say no support.

My project already features a pretty swaggy visualizer - no extra blocks required. If novice scratchers want to make their own visualizer, they should recognize that making a visualizer, like a lot of things on scratch that people want to do (3D, multiplayer, etc) requires advanced knowledge and hard work, not wishing for a new block to do what they want. No offense to OP
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Thepuzzlegame wrote:

MegaApuTurkUltra wrote:

I know this topic has just been necrobumped but I want to say no support.

My project already features a pretty swaggy visualizer - no extra blocks required. If novice scratchers want to make their own visualizer, they should recognize that making a visualizer, like a lot of things on scratch that people want to do (3D, multiplayer, etc) requires advanced knowledge and hard work, not wishing for a new block to do what they want. No offense to OP
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I definitely see your point of view and that project is incredibly cool! However one of the main goals of scratch is to simplify programming for younger audiences. There's already a block which detects the mic loudness so why not add a block that detects sound loudness as well?