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nomelif
Oscillator synchronization
I want these 2 oscillators to have the same phase offset, to be synchronized to form a chord
both phase offsets are set to 0, and their playback is absolutely not synchronized.
Here's what I'm doing, just some fun experiments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKgEFXkxCBg
Cool!
As you might've guessed, this happens because the clocks were started at different times and there's no way to reset them. A simple solution would be adding a global "Reset" button which resets everything, or do you have some other solution in mind?
Your demo also gives me some non-critical node ideas:
- Arpeggiator node (with a bunch of preconfigured musical scales)
- Static chord player node (emulating a Piano node that has many keys pressed)
Maybe you need to have some time variable input into each of the oscillators so that you can synchronize and more precisely work with time. Which by default will be taken as the first one that is added in the node setup. Or maybe if it's not plugged it will be generated like it is working currently.
Also this way you could use anything as time, including the "value" node with keyframed value of time. This way, you can render oscillators exactly in order and speed you need (besides the frequency control)
The only problem with this I see is keyframing time is a bad idea because you usually render at 24 fps which is huge for the sound waves.
Maybe you could keyframe, when you start the clock? Like, make a playback speed slider, which you can keyframe Or hmm...
I've also thought about some kind of time signal system, but tying that to Blender's timeline seems really intriguing. I hadn't really thought of that.
Ideally keyframed animations would be sampled in the backend (i.e. at full audio sampling frequency), such that the keyframe points and maybe even curve types are copied to the backend. This would also mean that the sound could be exactly the same each time, instead of having the inevitable jitter when the values are updated from Blender continually. Not to mention the ability to bounce the audio (render to a file faster than real-time). Maybe play a MIDI file according to the time as well? I dream of a piano roll editor inside Blender, but that's probably not going to happen without an external window.
The Oscillator node is fairly cluttered already, so I was thinking this externally clocked version would be a separate node, not sure if that's a good idea. I feel like live MIDI-based stuff is still the main paradigm with Audionodes. But hey, this timeline paradigm could turn out really fun.
I guess having a node that exposes the current Blender playback position would be a good start then.