Spectrum

a radial ring of normalized bands driven by the live microphone, with the central disc flashing on each detected beat (clap at it). Until permission is granted, a generated sawtooth Tone stands in. It glides in pitch, and the disc pulses on the level. This shows how permission works, because AudioInput.start() asks for it and the picture plays either way (AudioInput, Tone, bands, beat)

Run

swift run --package-path Examples Example-Audio-Spectrum

Imports

OllinAudio

Source

Examples/Audio/Spectrum/Sketch.swift

import Ollin
import OllinAudio

/// Sound drives the picture, from whichever source the Mac will give it. An
/// `AudioInput` asks for the microphone on launch; once permission is granted
/// and the input runs, the ring of bars traces what the room sounds like and
/// the central disc flashes on every detected `beat` (clap and watch it pulse).
/// Until then a `Tone` oscillator stands in: an evolving sawtooth, gliding in
/// pitch and breathing in level, analyzed exactly the same way, its harmonics
/// lighting up many bands while the glide sweeps the pattern around.
///
/// That fallback is the permission lesson. The microphone needs the user's
/// consent (`AudioInput.start()` asks the first time; from `swift run` the
/// system attributes the prompt to the binary, and a packaged app would carry a
/// usage description), so the sketch keeps a generated signal ready and swaps
/// to the real one the moment it is allowed. Deny it and the picture still
/// plays; allow it and the room takes over.
///
/// `bands(_:)` returns values already shaped for drawing (spaced like hearing,
/// auto-scaled to `0...1`) on every source alike, so the bar lengths are a
/// plain map to pixels with no hand-tuned gain, and both paths share one
/// visual and one colormap.
@main
final class Spectrum: Sketch {
    let mic = AudioInput()
    let tone = Tone(frequency: 110, amplitude: 0.16, waveform: .sawtooth)
    let bars = 72
    var tonePlaying = false

    override func setup() {
        noStroke()
        try? mic.start()
    }

    override func draw() {
        background(Color(white: 0.07))

        // The microphone the moment it's allowed; the generated tone until then.
        let live = mic.isRunning
        if live, tonePlaying { tone.stop(); tonePlaying = false }
        if !live, !tonePlaying { tone.play(); tonePlaying = true }

        if !live {
            // Glide the pitch over ~1.5 octaves and breathe the level, so the
            // analyzed picture keeps moving.
            tone.frequency = 110 * pow(2, sin(time * 0.2) * 1.5)
            tone.amplitude = 0.10 + 0.08 * unipolar(sin(time * 1.7))
        }

        let levels = live ? mic.bands(bars) : tone.bands(bars)   // already normalized 0...1
        let inner = 150 * scale
        let maxLen = 320 * scale

        withState {
            translate(center)
            rotate(time * 0.1)
            for i in 0..<bars {
                let len = Double(levels[i]) * maxLen
                let angle = Double(i) / Double(bars) * .tau
                let dir = Vector2(angle: angle)
                fill(Colormap.turbo.color(at: Double(i) / Double(bars - 1)))
                drawOrientedBox(dir * inner, dir * (inner + len), thickness: 6 * scale)
            }
        }

        // The central disc: on the microphone it flashes on each detected beat
        // (`beat` snaps to 1 on an onset and decays); on the tone it pulses
        // with the overall (normalized) level.
        let pulse = live ? Double(mic.beat) * 300
                         : Double(levels.reduce(0, +)) / Double(bars) * 260
        fill(Color(white: 0.95))
        drawCircle(center.x, center.y, (40 + pulse) * scale)

        // Screen-space label saying which source is driving.
        drawCaption(live ? "Spectrum: listening, make some noise"
                         : "Spectrum: a generated tone; allow the microphone and the room takes over")
    }
}