An Artist's Guide to Programming

9 Working with Sound

Sketch 71: Playing a Sound File

One displays an image but plays a sound; why is that? Whatever the reason, Processing has no standard facility for displaying audio. It does have some libraries for that purpose, however, most importantly Minim. (We used a library in Sketch 50.)

Using Minim, this sketch will play an MP3 or WAV sound file using the standard PC sound interface. Adding to this, if the user presses the A key, the sound will move toward the left speaker, and if they press the D key (which is to the right of the A key), the sound will move toward the right speaker.

The first statement in the program 1 indicates ...