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Winleafs: Windows application for Nanoleaf lights
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Music sync from general PC sources not Spotify #193

Closed kdlilly closed 3 years ago

kdlilly commented 3 years ago

Hi,

Not a bug as a request for help as I cannot find a way to do what I need anywhere. All I want to do is set my canvas rhythm to use the input from the PC sound channel not from the microphone in the canvas tile. Exactly like your Spotify but in my case from VirtualDJ.

Anyone can help I can’t tell you how grateful I would be for a solution!

Thanks all

StijnOostdam commented 3 years ago

Hey,

I am not quite sure what you mean. Our Spotify function simply checks which playlist is playing and if it matches with one of your chosen playlists in a schedule, Winleafs sets the chosen effect and brightness. So our Spotify function does not analyze and react to music that is being played on the computer.

I think what you want is to analyze the PC audio and then send commands to the Nanoleaf lights to set colors. The reason we do not have this is in Winleafs is because this is a difficult task that is already nicely solved by Nanoleaf themselves. It is definitely possible to build it in Winleafs (or a separate program) but to get it performing as good as the Nanoleaf effects is difficult.

kdlilly commented 3 years ago

Firstly thank you so much for the very fast response.

What I was trying to say is using the audio channel on the pc whatever application is playing through the midi channel to drive the canvas as there is no option for a physical line in on the canvas and using the built in Mic gives inconsistent results.

Thanks that is what I’m trying to solve, hopefully better explained this time?

Kurt

On Sun, 30 May 2021 at 22:06, Stijn Oostdam @.***> wrote:

Hey,

I am not quite sure what you mean. Our Spotify function simply checks which playlist is playing and if it matches with one of your chosen playlists in a schedule, Winleafs sets the chosen effect and brightness. So our Spotify function does not analyze and react to music that is being played on the computer.

I think what you want is to analyze the PC audio and then send commands to the Nanoleaf lights to set colors. The reason we do not have this is in Winleafs is because this is a difficult task that is already nicely solved by Nanoleaf themselves. It is definitely possible to build it in Winleafs (or a separate program) but to get it performing as good as the Nanoleaf effects is difficult.

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StijnOostdam commented 3 years ago

So I think what I described, describes what you want:

I think what you want is to analyze the PC audio and then send commands to the Nanoleaf lights to set colors. The reason we do not have this is in Winleafs is because this is a difficult task that is already nicely solved by Nanoleaf themselves. It is definitely possible to build it in Winleafs (or a separate program) but to get it performing as good as the Nanoleaf effects is difficult.

What I mean is that we would make a custom effect that reacts to music played by a PC, instead of reacting to a mic.

As I said however, this is a difficult problem and since Nanoleafs already has it built in (be it only via mic), we are currently not planning on developing this feature.

kdlilly commented 3 years ago

Yes, it does, I was just hoping there was a way to use all Nanoleaf’s work and just send the audio channel instead of using the inbuilt mic.

I guess the alternative is to pull apart a control square and replace mic with line in.

Thanks for all your help and insight, I truly appreciate the time you’ve taken to respond.

On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 17:25, Stijn Oostdam @.***> wrote:

So I think what I described, describes what you want:

I think what you want is to analyze the PC audio and then send commands to the Nanoleaf lights to set colors. The reason we do not have this is in Winleafs is because this is a difficult task that is already nicely solved by Nanoleaf themselves. It is definitely possible to build it in Winleafs (or a separate program) but to get it performing as good as the Nanoleaf effects is difficult.

What I mean is that we would make a custom effect that reacts to music played by a PC, instead of reacting to a mic.

As I said however, this is a difficult problem and since Nanoleafs already has it built in (be it only via mic), we are currently not planning on developing this feature.

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StijnOostdam commented 3 years ago

Glad to hear, happy to help and let us know if there is anywhing else