High level command based audio player for vvvv Gamma. Tested with vvvv 2021.4.12 stable.

Install from nuget In Gamma go to top left menu>Manage Nugets>Command line and type nuget install VL.GameAudioPlayer

Video tutorial

NOTE - The advanced architecture has been simplified since the video. Check the Advanced Architecture helppatch.

• Aims to reduce the complexity of getting audio playback into your app while maintaining good performance.
• Loads and plays media without blocking your main thread
• Removes headaches of managing player instances and building state machines for straightforward background music tasks.
• Simple organisation paradigm from video games with three main categories of media: Sound Effects, Music and Dialog
• Supports advanced workflows to simplify collaboration with composers and import from audio software (eg Ableton)
• Use loops of music and play loops in sequence
• Potentially cross-platform (only tested on Windows so far)
• Documented through interactive helppatches
• Extract BPM and Bar information for visualisation
• Includes original test media (also released under MIT licence, although if you use these in a project a credit as composer would be appreciated...)

• Only plays out the default sound device, no ASIO
• Only plays audio files, no recording or live inputs
• No realtime effects, beat detection or FFT

(If you need these functions see VL.Audio )

• No multitrack support
• Not intended for tight sync with video files.
• Does not support MP3 (due to underlying library limitation)

• Based on SFML.net
• Which is based on the original SFML
• Some of the audio functionality of SFML comes from OpenAL

• 90% complete and working
• PlayDialog functionality is there but not tested properly because I didn't have a use case. I can imagine there are specific needs for working with lots of dialog (eg managing localisation or linking mediakeys to dialog data for subtitle display). If someone has a project with a dialog usecase maybe you could contribute to this?
• Positioning functionality is just left to right panning. In theory the underlying library supports 3D positioning. Again I didn't have a usecase during development so if you've got one and you would like to contribute please get in touch.

• 1.0.4 Simplified the advanced workflow with ChannelCommand stateless operations. Find them under Advanced in node browser.
• 1.0.3 improved helppatches, improved dispose, fixed incorrect duration calculation for queued items
• 1.0.2 improved helppatches
• 1.0.1 improved helppatches, added function for MediaStatus command to continuing following the same player while next media has the same path.
• 1.0.0 initial release

MIT

All those in the vvvv chat for help with various issues during development.