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To kick off my session at FitC2006, I modified my Blazing Blazes demo to work off the bass level of a loaded music track using the new computeSpectrum feature in ActionScript 3. You can see it in action by clicking the screenshot below (Flash player 9 required). Note that while the demo is small (3kb), the music file is big, so it'll take a while to load.

If you watched my last tutorial you know how much of pain it was to read audio data in Flash. The old "analyze in AE" method is now a thing of the past. The new SoundMixer.computeSpectrum() method reads audio data at runtime allowing you to create audio-driven animations. Click on the image below to see my first experiment. This only took 10 minutes! Get ready to see some crazy stuff from the Flash community. Source is below as well.

After checking Sephiroth's SoundMixer experiment I thought something nicer could be done working a little bit more on that field. Long time ago I did some Visualization system for r08028. With flash7/8 you weren't able to get even the volume of the Sound so I had to do a quick tool with C for generating .txt files with the data. Luckily with Flash9/AS3 you can get that data on-the-fly!!

There were so many great entries in this contest and deciding on a winner was hard! After much deliberation and help from the great group of mods at the GTAL forums, I’m officially declaring the winner to be trioptic with his fullscreen masterpeice! It has such a cool feel to it and is kind of like watching a painting melt. I love the soundtrack too! Trioptic will be receiving a 6-month Premium subscription to the Lynda.com Online Training Library.