blender-related-specs.md

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Blender related specifications

Audio Project Scenes Settings

In the Scene Properties Panel is located an audio settings box, that includes:

Settings	Details	Min.	Max.	Default
Volume (Main)	is_Animated	0.0	100.0	1.0
Distance Model	- None - Iverse / Inverse Clamped - Linea / Linear Clamped - Exponent / Exponent Clamped	[0]	[7]	[3]
Doppler Speed	Speed of Sound	0.01	10 000.0	1.0
Doppler Factor	Pitch Factor for Doppler Effect	0.0	10 000.0	1.0

Audio Strip

An Audio file is loaded in blender as a sequence file (AKA "Audio Strip"). This content includes several properties:

• Volume (animated)
• Pitch (animated)
• Pan
• Mono (Bool)
• Display Waveform (Bool)
• Channel (Sequencer channel!) (Int)
• Start
• Duration
• Strip Offset Start
• Strip Offset End
• Hold Offset Start
• Hold Offset End
• Source File (String)
• Path to file (String)
• Packing (Bool)
• Caching (Bool)
• Strip Modifiers (Add)
• Cache Settings (Check if apply to audio?)

Clip Editor

- !!! At this time, Audio clip cannot be edited !!!

Rendering Audio

About the multi-channel rendering and export features... Render Audio Mixdown

- ONLY Render Audio based on Channels settings (Mono export option)
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Audio Operators

bpy.ops.sound.mixdown

! (filepath='', check_existing=True, filter_blender=False, filter_backup=False, filter_image=False, filter_movie=False, 
! filter_python=False, filter_font=False, filter_sound=True, filter_text=False, filter_archive=False, filter_btx=False, 
! filter_collada=False, filter_alembic=False, filter_usd=False, filter_obj=False, filter_volume=False, filter_folder=True, 
! filter_blenlib=False, filemode=9, relative_path=True, display_type='DEFAULT', sort_method='', accuracy=1024, container='FLAC', 
! codec='FLAC', format='S16', bitrate=192, split_channels=False)

Relations

DeviceManager Class Reference

#include <DeviceManager.h> > 

aud.Device Device objects represent an audio output backend like OpenAL or SDL, but might also represent a file output or RAM buffer output

Audaspace	Blender
registerDevice()	_
getDeviceFactory()	_
getDefaultDeviceFactory()	_
setDevice()	_
openDevice()	_
openDefaultDevice()	_
releaseDevice()	_
getDevice()	_
get3DDevice()	_
getAvailableDeviceNames()	_