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Sound loudness?
« on: March 23, 2011, 08:49:49 am »
Is there a way I can make a sound quieter?
I need it for... http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_do_different_musical_instruments_sound_differently_even_when_playing_the_same_pitch_at_the_same_intensity

I have decided to spend a few days messing with sound so Sarah, my calc, can speak to me <3

Is it louder in full speed mode, It is a higher pitch.  If so, maybe I  can make adjustments to have things match up.

Edit:  How many people have spring break this week? 
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2011, 08:55:06 am »
Hmm, I'm not sure. I've made sound routines, but I've never figured this out. It is definitely something I would be interested in, too. It probably depends on how much power is being pumped through the serial port... not sure, sorry!

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2011, 09:21:12 am »
I have spring break!
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2011, 11:46:53 am »
If you're talking about the Axe Freq() command, as far as I know there is no way to change the volume. The volume of a sound is proportional to the amplitude, but since Freq() only produces a 1-bit wave, I don't think there is a way to increase or decrease the amplitude.

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2011, 12:40:54 pm »
So making a voice would be extremely hard in axe?
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2011, 12:43:39 pm »
So making a voice would be extremely hard in axe?
Ohhhh yeah.

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2011, 12:45:33 pm »
My friends won't believe that my calc speaks to me, so I need to give her a voice <3
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2011, 12:47:06 pm »
My friends won't believe that my calc speaks to me, so I need to give her a voice <3
Right, well, that's going to be extremely difficult in Axe, if not impossible.

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2011, 12:53:17 pm »
thank you for your help.
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2011, 01:06:09 pm »
Actually, you can access the link port directly as far as I know (wasn't it the Port token?)

You could probably get some simple WAV playback if you time it correctly (by simple, I mean probably around 4 bits per sample)
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #10 on: March 23, 2011, 01:15:48 pm »
Actually, you can access the link port directly as far as I know (wasn't it the Port token?)

You could probably get some simple WAV playback if you time it correctly (by simple, I mean probably around 4 bits per sample)
You can access it directly, but would it be fast enough?  We are talking about speech. :D
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #11 on: March 23, 2011, 01:18:32 pm »
Well, Axe can't access the ports except through the 1 bit routines or through inline ASM. If you're going to try something like 4 bit WAV, you'd probably need ASM to get the proper speed. Of course, Quigibo's probably about to come through here with a post on how Axe 1.0 will have built in Text2Voice commands and 3d color graphing :P

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #12 on: March 23, 2011, 01:35:59 pm »
I thought sound on calc wasn't even loud enough and that people would rather want to increase the volume, not decrease it? O.O

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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #13 on: March 23, 2011, 02:09:37 pm »
I thought sound on calc wasn't even loud enough and that people would rather want to increase the volume, not decrease it? O.O

Lmao, I hope you are joking.  It is way to loud.  I will edit with a video in a few min.
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Re: Sound loudness?
« Reply #14 on: March 23, 2011, 02:21:05 pm »
Do you use headphones? Because the last time I tried sound on my 83+ I barely heard anything with them. ??? Note that I used CALCmod and TI-Jukebox, though. I never tried with Axe.