Huron & SNAP Documentation

Features
Operation
Sonic Animator
Sonic Animator gives sequencing capability to Huron messages
in the way that audio or MIDI sequencing applications give
sequencing capability to audio recordings or MIDI messages.
In particular, this initial Sonic Animator version allows sound
source location sequences to be recorded, replayed, and
generally manipulated in a graphical environment.
Sonic Animator is not a VRack application, but stands alone
and communicates with VRack applications such as the Space
Array through Huron messages.
• Recording and playback of sound source location sequences
using either the internal PC clock or external MIDI Time
Code (MTC) through an ordinary sound card in the Huron.
• A track-based temporal view where each track corresponds
to a Location Channel Number.
• Temporal manipulation of location sequences, such as cut,
copy, paste, clear, merge, split, shift by.
• Importing and exporting of Locator scripts, allowing old
performances to be used without having to be recreated.
Locator scripts are described in the Locator subsection of
this manual.
• Playback with linear interpolation between location
messages. Thus, rather than specify every location message
to be sent, the user may specify extremes and let Sonic
Animator interpolate between them.
• An internal resolution of 1 millisecond and an internal
playback or record resolution of 10 milliseconds.
In order to successfully use Sonic Animator, an understanding
of the hierarchical data model is required. The model is
represented pictorially in the following diagram.
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