Ive been working on touchdesigner for a moment now and was wondering something. Am i able to generate a 3D object from scratch with an audio file. More precisely, am i able to have touchdesigner read an audio file i give it an generate an object? I understand i would have to give certain restrictions and values for it to measure, but if i am able to do this, how would i go about it?
When converting audio to shape, you would have to think about what properties of the audio waveform you would like to translate. Is it just a xy scope you are after or do you want to use the frequency band in some way…
A great strength in TouchDesigner comes from being able to convert between datatypes, an audio waveform can be easily interpreted as 3D point positions for example by using the ChopTo SOP [url]https://docs.derivative.ca/CHOP_to_SOP[/url]
The simplest form of this can be found in the Palette. Under the Techniques section find the xyScope component and check out the inside.
I would suggest following some of the tutorials that are out there which cover audio visualization. A good general resource can be found here: derivative.ca/Events/2016/NorwayWorkshop/