Sound Adobe Flash Tutorials

Generate Video Captions with Soundbooth
In this tutorial I am going to show you one example of how this works. We are going to take the audio track out of a video file, transcribe it and then use that transcription to create video captions in Flash.

Flash Volume Slider
This tutorial will teach you how to make a volume Slider.

Play sound Dynamically
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to play sound dynamically.

Create a sound button
This Flash tutorial will teach you how to create a sound button. This involves using two basic buttons (on/off).

Create a soundboard
This flash tutorial will teach you how to create a basic sound board.

Adding sound to a button
This flash tutorial will teach you how to add sound to a button. This tutorial is useful if you want to create a mouse over sound effect which can be used in flash websites, applications and games.

Sound
Adding sound to flash movies is a fun way to make your movies more interactive and dynamic. Adding sound in flash seemed a daunting task to me at first, however it is surprisingly easy! Hopefully this tutorial will help you out in your future flash endeavors. Just a quick note - you will need to have a music loop or music file of some kind handy to complete this tutorial, preferably an .mp3 file.

Simulated Flash Audio Spectrum Analyzer
To code a Simulated Spectrum Analyzer for visual Audio representation using Adobe Flash and Actionscript. The analyzer accepts a spectrum object to define how the audio bars will react. This means you can adjust it to simulate different genres of music or audio levels. It is easy to change the color, size, the number of bars both horizontally and vertically, the spacing between them and their fading effect. We also code a function to turn the analyzer off.

ON\OFF Sound Button
This tutorial will tell you how to create a simple Flash music on and off button using Flash action script.

Creating Sound Control
This tutorial requires a basic knowledge of Flash. You must know how to create buttons, and work with Frames and Layers. For this tutorial, you will need a sound loop - you can find plenty all over then net, or do what I did and create your own.

Making a Simple Mediaplayer
One of the most frequently asked questions down in the forum is how to make a media player. This is done pretty easily in Flash. In this tutorial, we'll start with a simple player, and then make it more and more advanced.

Compression settings in Flash
It is always best to import the best quality sound into Flash and not anything less. Let Flash do the work of compression. Generally the best quality sounds are in 44Khz Stereo 16 bit format. This is CD quality sound. If you import a sound that is formatted in 22Khz mono 8 bit, you can never "upgrade" to better quality in Flash.

In / Out points
If you do not have access to a sound editing application in which you can optimize your sounds, Flash gives you limited ability to "edit" your sounds. That is, you can delete from your sound files any unnecessary silence or gaps which you would not want to include in your presentation or increase your file size.

Envelope Points
Once a sound is attached to a frame in Flash. you can use a maximum of 8 envelope points to manipulate that sound. Envelope points (appearing as little squares in the diagram below) are really volume controls that allow you to create effects such as panning, muting, and fading.

Trouble Shooting Sound in Flash
Most likely, your sound contains gaps or silence and has not been edited properly. You can remedy this in two ways.

Sound Controls
Knowing how to get around the Sound tab in the Frame Properties window will facilitate the use of your audio. Below is a diagram that illustrates the various sound controls in Flash.

Sound Equalizer
Using the enhanced ActionScripting features of Flash, it is now possible to create some truly interactive audio effects, for example volume and panning controls. This tutorial will explain how to use sound objects, Smart Clips and ActionScripting to create an interactive 3 band graphic equalizer effect with volume control.

Null Sound Technique
This whitepaper contains a detailed description of the so called "NULLSOUND" streaming technique, which can be used for making music for Flash® presentations with the file size 90% smaller than the file size generated by the traditional streaming sounds method, while keeping the animations full sync with the music.

Layering Audio
killersound recognizes that Flash can be used as a sequencer or mixer similar to software used by digital musicians to sequence music. Generally each composition is made up of various elements or components such as bass, drums, melody, etc. Each element is recorded and optimized separately and imported as an individual sound file into Flash.

Content Based Soundtracks in Flash
The technique allows the selection of which soundtrack to play to be based on what content is being displayed. It also allows the user to pause the movie or browse the site without interrupting the soundtrack, and to mute the soundtrack without affecting their ability to browse the site while still allowing sound effects like button sounds to play.