Animation + Music = Awesome

[JustaTest]

Is there a way to make animations with sound? What I mean is, is there a way to use a sound (in 3ds Max or another program) and animate along with it? I find myself playing, stopping, rewinding, and even doing so it's not quite on time with the sound.

[Bree Giffen]

You can use a gesture to combine a sound and animation. Not sure what you mean. You can't upload an animation and sound together as one file.

[Torley Linden]

One way to quickly get examples of what Bree mentions is: go to a Welcome Area/Infohub like Ahern or Waterhead, and ask the (likely rowdy) regulars to give you some of their favorite free gestures. Many of them are adapted from memes where a crazy anim plays with a sound. Like this SL take on "Geddan":

[JustaTest]

Sorry for the late response, been busy with work. What I meant was that I want to animate the movements of dance moves and use the actual song as reference. For example, clapping your hands to the beat of a song. Think of a metronome, you want to edit an animation frame according to when that beat will come. I don't want to submit the animation and sound clip together, I want to simply edit the animation. Hope that makes sense.

[JustaTest]

I'm unable to view the video Torley, sorry. But I don't want to submit a gesture, just the animation itself for now

[JustaTest]

**BUMP**

I'm still trying to figure out how to edit an animation to a sound. As I mentioned earlier, I want to edit an animation according to when the beat will drop, for instance....stomping foot.

[Medhue Simoni]

Most songs have a set beat. So, in terms of any animation, you know the beat is going to hit ever 2 seconds or whatever. If you are creating an animation at 20 FPS, and the beat is every 2 seconds, that means the beat hits every 40 frames. Or, If you have a mocap system, just play the song and dance to it, lol.