This past Tuesday PHUG hosted another great FREE PHUG Workshop at Seneca, Flash Media Server and BeatMaker. I won’t go into to much detail, you read the revieew over at the PHUG site, but I will mention the very cool Open Source Flash class that Dan Zen, presenter ( Sheridan Professor and Inventor ), demoed that night.

BeatMaker Class – Simple Access to Sound Frequencies
Inventor, Dan Zen, has built two wrapper classes that make accessing the Flash computeSpectrum functionality accessible to designers and easier for developers. The SoundBeat class sets up general spectrum analysis and the BeatMaker class extends the SoundBeat class to provide scale and / or alpha animations to sound.

Here is an example below, you can drag the flashing eyes around, also, watch the eyes careful when there is more base and less treble, very cool effect.

Download the files:
BeatMaker
UniqueBalls
Handout