Driving animation by way of audio

# 1 10-06-2010 , 04:35 AM

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I'm sure this has been answered in some capacity somewhere but maybe someone can get me on the right path.

What I'm looking to do is drive some animation by music. I saw a tutorial a while ago that started in after effects by using the convert audio to keyframes options, then attaching that to the opacity of a white plane. They rendered that image sequence and pulled it into Maya from there I think they used a plugin to drive the shape of a plane.

Is there anyway to do something similar without a plugin? Really all I'm looking to do is drive just the Y scale of a cube from the sound clip.

Any help would be much appreciated as always!! Thanks guys!

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# 2 10-06-2010 , 09:37 AM

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If you can capture the music as a graph, you could copy and paste that into the graph editer to Y scale of your cube. Not done much of this but I think that should work.............dave

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# 3 10-06-2010 , 12:48 PM

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Download the Maya Bonus Tools from the Autodesk site, they have an audio plug-in that you can use to drive an objects attributes.

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# 4 11-06-2010 , 12:33 AM

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Yes, it's called AudioWave. Here's a tutorial for it: https://area.autodesk.com/blogs/duncan/equalizer

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# 5 11-06-2010 , 04:36 PM

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Good stuff as usual guys. I got it setup and running unfortunately the results were not all that great. I'll keep tweaking...

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# 6 12-06-2010 , 08:08 AM

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Personally I didnt think it would be that great.

There more of a starting point.

Motion builder has a similar systme that allows you to do auto lip synch, good starting point.

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