Assignment 2 – A hands free lighting control – in progress

My goal is to create a Max patch that changes the lights based on audio frequencies smoothly, i.e. with slow-motion effect. So far, I’ve gotten the light to change corresponding to the amplitude of the sound. I used delay on audio, and I embedded a new patch that “smoothes out” the fast changes in amplitude detected by the microphone. So far so good! Here’s a video on the current effect of my patch. Now, you might see abrupt changes on the desktop reflection of light. That’s because I haven’t gotten each individual light to change smoothly, but I did on the overall effect.

Music by Pink Floyd “The Great Gig in the Sky”.

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