Laurens vanden Heijkant

Hi

I'm trying to register any input from a microphone but I can't figure out how to set it up - I've got a USB microphone connected to the PC and using an audio-in OP. I had hoped this would work fairly straightforward, but I'm not seeing anything happening in motion view.

In the audio in OP I can only choose between Line and Microphone and not Digital as is referred to in the help page for this OP.

I've also tried the mic from my headphones, but it doesn't do anything either. Searching the forums and those of ODforce were of no help too.


So… the questions; How to get houdini to register sound from my usb mic? Is this at all possible or should I use that of my headphones; if so, how to get this working? Any help would be much appreciated.


Thanks in advance :]

FYI, what I want to do is drive geometry and/or control the input of a CHOP synthesiser using a guitar, or through whistling, etc. I already managed to make some basic synths through chops, but I used simple waveforms then. I know houdini isn't made for this, but I don't care much about the input quality or the memory constraints (although it makes it a lot more difficult), I just want to see where playing around with it will lead me.

Cheers, the green flag is what I overlooked; must be a common noob thing unfortunately. Thanks alot for explaining it so clearly.

Now on to the challange of converting the beeps to beats
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Hello, I intend to make a musical animation in houdini, much like a demoscene movie (currently posting this from the breakpoint festival).

The music I want to synthesize completely from scratch using waves.

The problem I'm facing is that when I play the animation, with an audio setup described in the help documents for sound object/spacial audio etc, as well as with the example files; I cant hear any sound at all.

I've allocated the desired chop to the audio panel, and tried changing cache settings; none of it seems to help.

The audio panel's graphical volume indicator also doesnt illuminate.

I've been repeating myself over and over, but to no avail; does someone know what I may be missing?

sys specs: Clevo Style-Note M57U, 32 bits XP, Houdini 9.5.303