Tip for people following the tutorial now: the bake sound to f-curves in blender 4.0 is called "sound to samples" and it is found in the "channel" menu on the right of the "key" menu.
I used an array modifier with the Curve modifier to make a ring of this around a stage. Great video help me with a music video project. thanks you for the tutorial.
The last tip in compisiting was so helpful so I have a tip also in geonode that is if your finding instance on point: just type ip Combine XYZ: just type cx Separate XYZ: just type sx Map Range: just type mr Curve Circle: just type cc Mesh to Curve: just type mtc Curve to Mesh: just type ct Fill Curve: just type fc Set Position: just type se And there are also many nodes that you can type shortcutly And Thanks for the tutorial🤗 love to see more geonode tutorials
Yeah i believe you can just keyframe the values for the emission using a colorramp. Leave the ramp on black and white and drive it with for example a gradient texture. Then make sure to plug in the colorramp in both emission and alpha values. Then go into material settings and make sure to set it to alpha blend in the transparency settings! That should work.
Happy New Year! and Thankyou for this awesome tutorial and all the great work you did this year!! I would love to see more geo nodes animation tutorials
Make sure to select the node and the object. So select the wave texture for example and make sure you have your original object selected in the outliner 🙏🏻
Hiii, firstly thank you soo much for making this tutorial. It's been helping me so far But kind of stuck at one point At 4:26 when I press 'i' the colour changes to green but nothing happens on the playback tab. I don't know where I'm going wrong
Thanks! Have you baked your audio to the F curve like shown in the video? Also it might be your music is too soft or doesn't have enough 'sound' to generate an effect. If this is the case take a value node, bake the sound there, add a math node set to multiply, multiply by a large number like 100 and then plug that into the value fo the scale. This way you can control how strong it is and see if the music is the problem. Alternatively you can also add different music and see if that helps at all!
@@KaizenTutorials hey!! Thanks for replying so soon actually. but it my bad i didn't realise that the wave texture wasn't selected after i made the keyframe so couldn't see the change. It's all working really amazing now. Thanks again
Hint. If you are going to use the same Audio Baked F-Curve, just use an Input Value Node. Bake into the value node, then use the value node to input into any driver you want. This could save you a lot of memory opposed to if you are baking the same sound into several different drivers separately.
hi im having trouble at 4:26 and i have the waveform selected and ive looked at all the other comments that have the same issue that was sorted out but it still doenst work for me what am i doing wrong pls help
You have to have the waveform NODE selected and the actual waveform OBJECT in the outliner as well! Do you have both selected? Then also make sure the waveform NODE has a keyframe and then it should work!
Hey there awesome tutorial! I have a question at 9.57 when I set the Emission to white my waveform is not reacting to the emission color change, I have bloom on as well as high contrast, what did it do wrong? pls help, thanks.
Have you selected a material within the ‘set material’ node in Geometry Nodes? Make sure to select the material here with the same name as the one your editing in the shader window! 🙌🏻
Great video, I'm new to blender though and at 9:57 when you set the emission to white I did the same but it doesn't show up even though I'm in the rendered viewport shading area. I tried deleting and recreating the material but had the same issue.
Thanks! Ah, well you've probably not enabled the material in Geometry Nodes. Make sure to add a 'Set Material' node to your node tree as the final node and select the material you created in there. Then it should work!
Tip for absolute beginners, already mentioned in one the answers here: the tutorial says a Set Material node would allow the curve to use the default material which the object already has: yes, but only if you choose it in the Set Material node, it will not be set automatically.
This tutorial is great! however I do have a small issue at 7:45 when I move the scale it doesn't shrink the sides but rather all the high points. any ideas why?
i wish blender could hear the music out of any audio source in a computer. You could make a live performance if you didn't forced to the drag and drop thing... I wish they add an audio sync feature in blender so that i can make it read audio in/out.
Excellent tutorial as usual...I have a question. Is there a way to do the opposite? I mean, have blender play a sound on a collision detect like in game engines but for a specific rigidbody collision animation on the timeline.....imagine 20 marbles falling on a countertop...each will make a sound every time it hits or bounces on the top. Thank you again
Nice Tutorial.. Thanks... Me being a total nub to Blender, it was a little hard to follow as you know all the Hot Key and short cuts. But I figured it out. I was good to the point where you ran the first animation pressing the space bar as you mentioned. fps is clicking away, collection is clicking away. All the steps, settings and placements in the nodes matches yours but I have no movement to see how the waveform is moving.. I'm sure it is in the animation setting, but you didn't touch on that. If you have some suggestions that would help me achieve the same results as you are receiving, that would be great.
I'm sorry I should have made some stuff clearer using a keycast overlay so you can see what I'm pressing! Have you made sure to bake the sound to the correct nodes? So that the sound is actually 'moving' your geometry? I show how to do this around th-cam.com/video/rSrjDgWWlWs/w-d-xo.html. Hope this helps! If not, feel free to send me an e-mail at kaizentutorials@gmail.com with your issue and I'll have a look :-)
Either Simon Thommes or Jaques Lucke made a native audio input node into Geometry nodes like almost 2 months ago or so, but I don't know the reason why it didn't find its way into master. maybe we need a petition to have that developed further?!?!?!
Yeah you can add an image as a plane and use it as the background. Or add one as the camera background, in the camera settings. Or you can add one in compositing and alpha over the waveform! Looking forward to seeing your end result. 💪
Hi. Thank you very much for this tutorial but i have a problem... I reached the "shading" stage but I can't add any color to my wave and I don't know why. Any idea ? Thanks.
No problem! To get the material to show up you need to do a couple things; 1 make sure to add a Set material node at the end of the geonodes system and select the material you want. Then make sure the material is setup properly and finally also enable rendered view by hitting Z and choosing rendered.
Amazing tutorial, btw...I'm pretty new on Blender, and I have a question: Can I use this or is there any way to add this effect on a video composition made also in Blender? Let me explain: I making a podcast and I would like to use a Audio visualizer, and the best option was to use Adobe After Effects but I cannot pay for it, I checked that Blender also has a video editor, where you can edit just like AE but a bit more limited. So I would like to use the Video Sequence Editor on Blender, and add this Audio Visualizer, is it possible? or it belongs to other area? Thanks!
Thank you! Yes this would be definitely possible. However it would be a 2-step process. Meaning that 1 you would need to create your edit in Blender first. Make sure it is complete and everything is done except the waveform part. Now you can export your video from this edit. After rendering the audio you can now create this setup and instead of using music, use the audio from your podcast. Import and bake to the F-Curve. Now your waveform should work and you can now import your video edit in the Sequence editor and combine it there with the waveform. This should work just fine. I think doing this in AE would be easier, but like you said... AE is very expensive. So Blender is a good and FREE option to do this aswell! Good luck.
how would you make it react in response to frequency as in when there are more bass frequencies the left is higher in amplitude and the same for the high end as well?
The only really good way to do that is to get audio with separate stems, or by isolating frequencies in audio editing software. Sadly there’s no easy fix in Blender!
Help - At 13.40 "Hove over Scale and press I" - When I open up the graph editor I have no red line, but Scale has turned yellow? What's up with that any ideas? Thanks
@@affectachange I had the same problem but I figured our what to do. You are supposed to select the Wave Texture node and the object to make the red line show up
Probably because you either forgot to add a 'set material' node in the GeoNode system, or you did add it, but you forgot to select the material in the node :-)
I have a weird issue. My animation was working perfectly in sync. Maybe I made a mistake along the way. The problem is I think that the waveform nodes are going faster/slower than the music in the video editor pane. I've set my export settings to 60fps, could that be it? I already went into the graph editor and removed the the existing bakes from the wave texture and multiply parts. Then reset the timeline in the geometry overview to 1, rebaked the sound. But it still is out of sync. At the end of the tutorial everything seemed to be in sync with the base. Now it's not. Where should I look to fix this? I also tried a different song, which is a bare beat, and the waveform is out of sync as well with that one.
It could be the FPS. Not sure though but I think I used 30. Try using that and see if that syncs up. If that isn't it it might be something with time remapping. Not sure though!
@@KaizenTutorials I restored a backup (long live DejaDup), it works fine in the restored version before I started changing stuff for the export. The FPS is 24 in the restored one and it's perfectly in sync. Thanks for replying! You're a legend.
Thank you Kaizen. Great tutorial & detailed explanation of course. I was wondering if i can change the song later and how to do that in this settings. Could you tell me which node to key again to change the song i rendered or should i do the whole process again? Sorry i'm new to blender and nodes are very confusing right at the moment.
You can easily change the song. Just go back to the video editor, remove the current song, add a new one. Then go to geometry nodes and remove the keyframes you added to the nodes (as shown in the tutorial). Make sure you are on frame one and then add new keyframes. Open up the graph editor and replace the keyframes with the Bake sound to F-curve of the new song. It should now work with new music! :-)
During Compositing, you say "right click and drag over these two to combine them together" referring to the Composite Node and the Viewer Node. When I right click a menu appears. How do I do the click, drag, combine thing? Slower with more detail like I'm 5, please.
Hahaha allright here it goes; First of all Step 1 - make sure you go into preferences > add ons > and enable the 'Node Wrangler' addon. It's a great addon that allows you to many different things with shader/Geometry nodes, making them more user friendly. Then Step 2 - With Node Wrangler enabled hop on over to any node based window, in this particular case the compositor. There you want to combine both the Composite and the Viewer node together. The default compositor output is ONLY the composite node. To get the viewer node you can CTRL + SHIFT click on any node, which will automatically create a Viewer node with that specific node as the output. Step 3 - You now have both a composite and viewer node, both being input by the same node (e.g. the final compositing node I usually use 'Lens Distortion'. To combine both of these you can hold down SHIFT and then Right mouse click (and hold the mouse button down) and drag your mouse across both connections. This should create a 'combine' socket which combines both connectors into one, with 2 outputs. 1 going into the Composite and 1 going into the Viewer. If you perform the actions correctly you should see a small dotted line whilst doing the SHIFT+RMB and drag function btw. Hope this helps! :-) Good luck 🙌
You did beautiful job making this, and I can tell a lot of work went into the explanation. I was able to fully follow this to the end as instructed. But I was unable to export this exactly with the same emission settings with a transparent background. I went through every possible setting, including enabling transparency in film, enabling bloom, increasing strength of emission, etc. My render preview even looks perfect, showing emission behind the default transparent background. But when I load the export into Adobe Premiere, I only get the colors and no emissions whatsoever. Do you have any recommendations for that situation? Thank you!
Oh yeah that’s an issue. There’s no real way to fix that, that I know off. You can either do everything in Blender; so just import your footage there and use it as the background, or you can render out your video with a black background including the emission. Then just use it in your video editor of choice with screen settings. Won’t look ideal, but it’ll sort of work.
Hi! I've gotten this question recently and as far as I know there is no current 'easy' way of doing this. However, if you know Python, you could write a custom addon which would allow to import realtime audio in Blender I suppose. But I have no idea how tto do any of that, haha! Good luck 👍
Yeah either do it in post with the Visualisations set to screen mode so it gets rid of the black, or just add an image as a plane in your scene and use that as the background. Just align it with the camera and voila
Hey Kaizen, I followed all steps very carefully and went back through the video twice, everything is good until I get to shading, the object won't emit any light and I can't figure out why... any ideas of where I went wrong?
As far as I know the only thing you can currently do is seperate based on frequency ranges when you import the track. So let's say you add a motion on the Z axis (so an object moves up and down based on sound), then you can hit 'Bake sound to F-curve'. In the window that pops up you can select lower and higher end frequencies. This is what Blender will use to determine what range of the sound/song is imported. Afterwards, however, there is no way to tweak it. To seperate instruments to get different instruments doing different effects e.g. you'd be best off getting a track with seperated track sounds. This would make your life a lot easier, because else you'll be manually looking for the right frequency bands for each instrument. Hope this helps!
Unfortunately I don't see a keyframe in the timline. So the key in wave texture in geometry node. Therefore it is not in the graph editor. I use blender 4. I would be happy if you could help me. Greetings from Berlin
Hmm that's strange. It's probably picking up some nominal frequencies still. I'd try playing around with the map range nodes and color ramps to see if you can get rid of it.
@@KaizenTutorials Thanks for the response, I checked the material and it was fine, I later discover that the Sky in world settings was too low, setting higher numbers helped, since not even the standard material was showing up properly before
No worries. But tbh it shouldn’t have to have any external lighting if you have an emission shader. Since the emission is providing light! But if you’re working in Cycles instead of EEVEE you could have some issues with that for sure. If you can’t get it to look as you want feel free to send me an email @ kaizentutorials@gmail.com.
As far as I know there is no way to take live audio and use this as the basis. It would require writing a custom plug-in in Python or using a different software entirely.
Heya, I've been having some trouble when seeing the red line in the graph editor. I don't see it, I unchecked only keyframes from selected channel to see the key frame in the timeline but the red line would not show in the graph editor.
Thanks a lot! That’s actually pretty simple. Either do this by just adding in an image as a plane (you need to enable the ‘import images as planes addon first) and place it behind the geonodes setup. Another options that might give better results is to use the image either within the compositor and alpha over the waveform, or use it as a background image for the camera! Many options as you see haha, good luck 👍🏻
great tutorial! just wondering how to render and save the file to share with friends? I tried to render it as an animation and it came out all wonky lol
Thanks! So you would need to make sure you have the right settings. Render in any resolution you want (I used 1920x1080), make sure you go to the output and change the file format to FFMPEG video. Open up the encoding tab and change it to MP4. Then set the quality to perceptually lossless and make sure to choose a save location aswell. Oh and make sure to enable audio in the export and use the AAC codec for the audio. That should result in a good video which you can share!
Why nobody says how to use it outside of blender?! Or I have to listen music in Blender?! I NEED ANSWERS 😭😭😭 How to export it?!????? Why it renders into PNG ?!? SOS 🆘
Sadly you can't :-( You'll have to create a custom app for that. So I guess you'll have to listen to music in Blender now hahaha. Btw you can render it out to whatever you like; video, PNG etc.
Hmm ok, yeah these GeoNodes videos are outdated, so some behaviour may work differently. However displacement should largely still work the same. Do you have enough points? Can you ensure displacement works with a different node?
EDIT: Fix in my comment in this chain -------Original Comment-------- I'm trying to make the waveforms (horizontal wave texture scale) to be be as close as possible so I can make it a much longer waveform but multiplying the value just gives odd shapes, I know we can't do anything to modify the baked audio but I figure there must be a way within the node tree to cheat this? Also I noticed another comment say they had it follow a curve so I figured I'd try to animate that but it only deforms no matter what combination of modifiers n constraints I try. I'm guessing the only way to do such a thing would be within this node tree somehow, how much work do you think that would be? (I figured mesh to curve after the final node then curve to.. something or a raycast but I have the dumb when it comes to nod.. everything)
I'm not sure I really understand your questions. Feel free to send me an email at business@kaizen3d.com with some screenshots and a more in-depth explanation so I can better help you.
@@KaizenTutorials In setting up an example of what I was trying to achieve, I realised the follow curve modifier/follow curve constraight don't work the way you'd expect for some things.. I found the work around which is by keyframing the movement of whatever you want to follow the curve, in the world space. It's been a while since I've used that constraint/modifier combo, sorry for the dumb question
This is not a waveform at all. It's faking a waveform with swiggles that look reminiscent of a waveform, but it's just a loudness visualizer. I was hoping to find a way to visualize the frequencies spectrum like you get in actual waveforms.
You got me! Indeed it's not a waveform. Blender can't process individual frequencies in such a way that we can create an actual waveform. Atleast, not that I know of. So this is more of a compromise. Looks pretty good though I think haha and that's what counts right?
@@KaizenTutorials Yeah, someone might have to create an add-on (if it hasn't already been done) for Blender that does exactly what I want. This video did introduce me to geometry nodes and baking sound into animation. And via combining many other resources I did end up making something I'm happy with for my music.
Yeah they should! I’ve heard they might implement some sort of sound node eventually in GeoNodes. So that sounds promising. Anyways, super glad to hear you did get something out of it. Thanks!
Warning to anyone planning on doing this tutorial. You won 't learn anything. It is just show and copy, no useful information at all. The uploader would have been better to just make the Blender file available from all you will learn from it.
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Tip for people following the tutorial now: the bake sound to f-curves in blender 4.0 is called "sound to samples" and it is found in the "channel" menu on the right of the "key" menu.
Nice! Thanks for the update. 🙏🏻
Emission is also not working
@@GPgamepulse you have to put a "set material" node and choose the material otherwise it won't appear.
you are a hero
I used an array modifier with the Curve modifier to make a ring of this around a stage. Great video help me with a music video project. thanks you for the tutorial.
Very cool! Sounds like a dope version.
The last tip in compisiting was so helpful so I have a tip also in geonode that is if your finding instance on point: just type ip
Combine XYZ: just type cx
Separate XYZ: just type sx
Map Range: just type mr
Curve Circle: just type cc
Mesh to Curve: just type mtc
Curve to Mesh: just type ct
Fill Curve: just type fc
Set Position: just type se
And there are also many nodes that you can type shortcutly
And Thanks for the tutorial🤗 love to see more geonode tutorials
Thanks! Those are some good tips :-)
What??
Been Learning Blender Very Slowly these past Few Months... and Decided to kick it off with This project!...
Awesome, Tutorial, Learn a lot!.. Thanks!
Cool, great to hear! Good luck on your Blender Journey 👍🏻
I have been looking EVERYWHERE for something like this. You are a godsend
Thanks for this video! This is the video that helped me to do this soundwave/waveform!
Sick!! Thanks mate! A lot of great tutorials this year! I can't wait to see what's in store for 2022!! Happy New Year!
You’re very welcome! Glad you like it. 2022 will be much more tutorials and content! And hopefully 20K plus subs hahaha
Happy new year!
@@KaizenTutorials definitely above 20k subs! Maybe even a 100k!
That would be amazing 🙏🏻💪🏻🙌🏻
This video will bring a loot of people to blender!.. TNX a lot for it!
No problem!
Geometry node is so powerful, really nice 👍🏼 thx for your share
You’re welcome! Geometry Nodes is really something else for sure 🙏🏻
@@KaizenTutorials yeah, do you know how to fade in fade out Emission material with transparency on color ramp for EEVEE render ?
Yeah i believe you can just keyframe the values for the emission using a colorramp. Leave the ramp on black and white and drive it with for example a gradient texture. Then make sure to plug in the colorramp in both emission and alpha values. Then go into material settings and make sure to set it to alpha blend in the transparency settings! That should work.
@@KaizenTutorials thx I will try
Good luck!
Happy New Year! and Thankyou for this awesome tutorial and all the great work you did this year!! I would love to see more geo nodes animation tutorials
Thank you! You too! Appreciate the comment my friend. Glad you enjoyed the content and look forward to much more in 2022!
Yeah! Hoping for the best in 2022 for both the world and all the blender creators that I love to watch 😊
Cheers! 🎇🎆
Thank you for this great tutorial, really simple, atractive and useful.this is treasure like me who starting geo nodes
Thanks alot! Awesome to hear 👍🏻
Yes, that's exactly what I need, thank you a lot
Glad you like it! Thanks 🙏🏻
Happy new year, that was awesome thanks 🔥🔥
Happy new year! 🎆🎊 and thanks, glad you liked it!
Thank you for such simple and amazing tutorial 👍👍
You’re very welcome! 🙏🏻
Thank you! This was excellent!
No problem and thanks! 🤗
A really good and useful tutorial!
Thank you!
thank you for this amazing tutorial..... keep creating
Thank you, I will
Going to sit this one out and download the files from gumroad - Cheers and thanks anything I use from you I reference.
Aight! Hope they’re useful to ya 🙏🏻
THIS IS SICK!
Thanks! 💪🏻
2024, magic still happening. Only issue I had was I had deleted my material, duh, and had to go back and the new one to the node;). Thanks Kaizen.
Thanks for the info!
Amazing tutorial!! Managed to make a really great visualizer for my music with this!! :D
That’s awesome! Glad the video was useful and you were able to create something cool with it! :-)
Amazing content thanks for sharing
Thank you! You’re welcome 🙌🏻
Mine doesnt show a keyframe when I set it up on the scale
Make sure to select the node and the object. So select the wave texture for example and make sure you have your original object selected in the outliner 🙏🏻
Really awesom tutorial 👍👍
Thanks 🙏🏻
Thank you!!! It helped a lot 👍
You’re welcome! Glad it helped 🙌🏻
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
Very useful! Thanks! 😊
Appreciate it, thanks!
Hiii, firstly thank you soo much for making this tutorial.
It's been helping me so far
But kind of stuck at one point
At 4:26 when I press 'i' the colour changes to green but nothing happens on the playback tab.
I don't know where I'm going wrong
Thanks! Have you baked your audio to the F curve like shown in the video? Also it might be your music is too soft or doesn't have enough 'sound' to generate an effect. If this is the case take a value node, bake the sound there, add a math node set to multiply, multiply by a large number like 100 and then plug that into the value fo the scale. This way you can control how strong it is and see if the music is the problem. Alternatively you can also add different music and see if that helps at all!
@@KaizenTutorials hey!!
Thanks for replying so soon actually. but it my bad i didn't realise that the wave texture wasn't selected after i made the keyframe so couldn't see the change.
It's all working really amazing now.
Thanks again
Happy to hear you got it solved and no problem! I try to respond to all messages if at all possible 🙏🏻🤗
Hint. If you are going to use the same Audio Baked F-Curve, just use an Input Value Node. Bake into the value node, then use the value node to input into any driver you want. This could save you a lot of memory opposed to if you are baking the same sound into several different drivers separately.
Good tip! Thanks!
Amazing!!! Thanks =)
Appreciate it! 🙏🏻
hi im having trouble at 4:26 and i have the waveform selected and ive looked at all the other comments that have the same issue that was sorted out but it still doenst work for me what am i doing wrong pls help
You have to have the waveform NODE selected and the actual waveform OBJECT in the outliner as well! Do you have both selected? Then also make sure the waveform NODE has a keyframe and then it should work!
thanks
Hey there awesome tutorial! I have a question at 9.57 when I set the Emission to white my waveform is not reacting to the emission color change, I have bloom on as well as high contrast, what did it do wrong? pls help, thanks.
Have you selected a material within the ‘set material’ node in Geometry Nodes? Make sure to select the material here with the same name as the one your editing in the shader window! 🙌🏻
@@KaizenTutorials wow it worked, awesome, thank you so much! big ups with the tutorials!😎😎😎
Glad it worked! 💪🏻
@@KaizenTutorials this helped me as well! good tutorial!
Awesome to hear, thanks!
Great video, I'm new to blender though and at 9:57 when you set the emission to white I did the same but it doesn't show up even though I'm in the rendered viewport shading area. I tried deleting and recreating the material but had the same issue.
Thanks! Ah, well you've probably not enabled the material in Geometry Nodes. Make sure to add a 'Set Material' node to your node tree as the final node and select the material you created in there. Then it should work!
@@KaizenTutorials Mate, absolue legend! that was it.
Haha you weren’t the first with this issue! ;-) glad you got it solved!
Hey i did that too and it still wont work. My Animation is black but Emissions and everything else is set to white@@KaizenTutorials
Tip for absolute beginners, already mentioned in one the answers here: the tutorial says a Set Material node would allow the curve to use the default material which the object already has: yes, but only if you choose it in the Set Material node, it will not be set automatically.
Good one!
This tutorial is great! however I do have a small issue at 7:45 when I move the scale it doesn't shrink the sides but rather all the high points. any ideas why?
although I ended up with a different cool and wacky effect that I think is pretty cool!
You probably dont have the combine xyz node or plugged it into the wrong axis! :-)
i wish blender could hear the music out of any audio source in a computer. You could make a live performance if you didn't forced to the drag and drop thing... I wish they add an audio sync feature in blender so that i can make it read audio in/out.
That would be sick! 💪
11:53 Right click + shift, then drag*
Yes, you're right! My bad :-)
Thanks that helped! Everything was going good until the right click drag part. Just about to Google it and then I saw your comment, lol
Excellent tutorial as usual...I have a question. Is there a way to do the opposite? I mean, have blender play a sound on a collision detect like in game engines but for a specific rigidbody collision animation on the timeline.....imagine 20 marbles falling on a countertop...each will make a sound every time it hits or bounces on the top. Thank you again
Oof that's a good question. I don't think that's possible honestly... but I don't know for sure.
Hi, I am up to 4:36 'bake sound to f curves', but the button is greyed out. Any ideas why this would be? Thank you so much!
You have to make sure you have both the object and the node selected. Else you can't bake the sounf to the value.
@@KaizenTutorials I was stuck here as well. Thank you for clarifying!
Nice Tutorial.. Thanks...
Me being a total nub to Blender, it was a little hard to follow as you know all the Hot Key and short cuts. But I figured it out.
I was good to the point where you ran the first animation pressing the space bar as you mentioned. fps is clicking away, collection is clicking away. All the steps, settings and placements in the nodes matches yours but I have no movement to see how the waveform is moving.. I'm sure it is in the animation setting, but you didn't touch on that.
If you have some suggestions that would help me achieve the same results as you are receiving, that would be great.
I'm sorry I should have made some stuff clearer using a keycast overlay so you can see what I'm pressing!
Have you made sure to bake the sound to the correct nodes? So that the sound is actually 'moving' your geometry? I show how to do this around th-cam.com/video/rSrjDgWWlWs/w-d-xo.html. Hope this helps! If not, feel free to send me an e-mail at kaizentutorials@gmail.com with your issue and I'll have a look :-)
i'm stuck at 4:25 . For me the option "bake sound to f curve" is greyed out
Make sure both your object containing the Geonode setup and the node with the keyframe on it are selected!
Either Simon Thommes or Jaques Lucke made a native audio input node into Geometry nodes like almost 2 months ago or so, but I don't know the reason why it didn't find its way into master. maybe we need a petition to have that developed further?!?!?!
That sounds very cool and opens up a ton of possibilities! So that would be great to have for sure!
at 4:25 I press I but when switching to the graph editor, the red line doesn't show up. is there something I'm missing?
You need to have both the object and the node selected for it to work
@KaizenTutorials thank-you ! I completed the tutorial, and it is fantastic you are a master!
This is awesome! Is there a simple way add a background picture instead of a black background?
I'll post here when I finish my project
Yeah you can add an image as a plane and use it as the background. Or add one as the camera background, in the camera settings. Or you can add one in compositing and alpha over the waveform! Looking forward to seeing your end result. 💪
Hi. Thank you very much for this tutorial but i have a problem... I reached the "shading" stage but I can't add any color to my wave and I don't know why. Any idea ? Thanks.
No problem! To get the material to show up you need to do a couple things; 1 make sure to add a Set material node at the end of the geonodes system and select the material you want. Then make sure the material is setup properly and finally also enable rendered view by hitting Z and choosing rendered.
@@KaizenTutorials Ohhhh thank you ! The "set material" node was there but the material was not selected. Problem solved. Thank you very much :)
Amazing tutorial, btw...I'm pretty new on Blender, and I have a question: Can I use this or is there any way to add this effect on a video composition made also in Blender? Let me explain: I making a podcast and I would like to use a Audio visualizer, and the best option was to use Adobe After Effects but I cannot pay for it, I checked that Blender also has a video editor, where you can edit just like AE but a bit more limited. So I would like to use the Video Sequence Editor on Blender, and add this Audio Visualizer, is it possible? or it belongs to other area? Thanks!
Thank you! Yes this would be definitely possible. However it would be a 2-step process. Meaning that 1 you would need to create your edit in Blender first. Make sure it is complete and everything is done except the waveform part. Now you can export your video from this edit.
After rendering the audio you can now create this setup and instead of using music, use the audio from your podcast. Import and bake to the F-Curve. Now your waveform should work and you can now import your video edit in the Sequence editor and combine it there with the waveform. This should work just fine.
I think doing this in AE would be easier, but like you said... AE is very expensive. So Blender is a good and FREE option to do this aswell! Good luck.
how would you make it react in response to frequency as in when there are more bass frequencies the left is higher in amplitude and the same for the high end as well?
The only really good way to do that is to get audio with separate stems, or by isolating frequencies in audio editing software. Sadly there’s no easy fix in Blender!
A scrollinng wave sound would be kool. Any idea on how to do that?
What do you mean by this exactly?
Help - At 13.40 "Hove over Scale and press I" - When I open up the graph editor I have no red line, but Scale has turned yellow? What's up with that any ideas? Thanks
Ahh - You have to have the Waveform selected... Sorted it! ;)
haha glad you got it fixed, nice job!
I'm following along exactly step by step, but when I put in the keyframe, I do not get the red line. Any ideas on why not?
What red line do you mean specifically?
@@KaizenTutorials thank you for responding. The red line in the graph editor
@@affectachange I had the same problem but I figured our what to do. You are supposed to select the Wave Texture node and the object to make the red line show up
@@nwbgaming4255 Thank you. I will try that.
When I add the emission.. nothing happens? It just stays black, no cool glowing effect like you have.
Probably because you either forgot to add a 'set material' node in the GeoNode system, or you did add it, but you forgot to select the material in the node :-)
I have a weird issue. My animation was working perfectly in sync. Maybe I made a mistake along the way. The problem is I think that the waveform nodes are going faster/slower than the music in the video editor pane. I've set my export settings to 60fps, could that be it? I already went into the graph editor and removed the the existing bakes from the wave texture and multiply parts. Then reset the timeline in the geometry overview to 1, rebaked the sound. But it still is out of sync. At the end of the tutorial everything seemed to be in sync with the base. Now it's not. Where should I look to fix this? I also tried a different song, which is a bare beat, and the waveform is out of sync as well with that one.
It could be the FPS. Not sure though but I think I used 30. Try using that and see if that syncs up. If that isn't it it might be something with time remapping. Not sure though!
@@KaizenTutorials I restored a backup (long live DejaDup), it works fine in the restored version before I started changing stuff for the export. The FPS is 24 in the restored one and it's perfectly in sync. Thanks for replying! You're a legend.
Amazing - Had to pop back and say thanks. Request if you want to: A similar video but incorporating a logo .SVG somehow.
Cheers legend! :)
Thanks! I do have some vids on using SVG's (curves) in Geometry Nodes, but not particularly in this context. I'll take it into consideration!
Thank you Kaizen. Great tutorial & detailed explanation of course. I was wondering if i can change the song later and how to do that in this settings. Could you tell me which node to key again to change the song i rendered or should i do the whole process again? Sorry i'm new to blender and nodes are very confusing right at the moment.
You can easily change the song. Just go back to the video editor, remove the current song, add a new one. Then go to geometry nodes and remove the keyframes you added to the nodes (as shown in the tutorial). Make sure you are on frame one and then add new keyframes. Open up the graph editor and replace the keyframes with the Bake sound to F-curve of the new song. It should now work with new music! :-)
@@KaizenTutorials Thanks for the reply. Peace ☮
ima use this in a meme
Haha cool!
Why in the Key tab, i didn't have the "Bake sounds to F curve ?"
Is it normal ?
I'm in Blender 4.0.2 and my wave and my wave node are selected
I believe they changed the name. It''s now called Sound to Samples and its in the Channel Tab.
@@KaizenTutorials Tyyyy
During Compositing, you say "right click and drag over these two to combine them together" referring to the Composite Node and the Viewer Node. When I right click a menu appears. How do I do the click, drag, combine thing? Slower with more detail like I'm 5, please.
Hahaha allright here it goes; First of all Step 1 - make sure you go into preferences > add ons > and enable the 'Node Wrangler' addon. It's a great addon that allows you to many different things with shader/Geometry nodes, making them more user friendly.
Then Step 2 - With Node Wrangler enabled hop on over to any node based window, in this particular case the compositor. There you want to combine both the Composite and the Viewer node together. The default compositor output is ONLY the composite node. To get the viewer node you can CTRL + SHIFT click on any node, which will automatically create a Viewer node with that specific node as the output.
Step 3 - You now have both a composite and viewer node, both being input by the same node (e.g. the final compositing node I usually use 'Lens Distortion'. To combine both of these you can hold down SHIFT and then Right mouse click (and hold the mouse button down) and drag your mouse across both connections. This should create a 'combine' socket which combines both connectors into one, with 2 outputs. 1 going into the Composite and 1 going into the Viewer.
If you perform the actions correctly you should see a small dotted line whilst doing the SHIFT+RMB and drag function btw.
Hope this helps! :-) Good luck 🙌
@@KaizenTutorials SHIFT + RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON!! Ohhhhhh! Thank you!
Hha yeah sorry my bad 🙌🏻
You did beautiful job making this, and I can tell a lot of work went into the explanation. I was able to fully follow this to the end as instructed. But I was unable to export this exactly with the same emission settings with a transparent background. I went through every possible setting, including enabling transparency in film, enabling bloom, increasing strength of emission, etc. My render preview even looks perfect, showing emission behind the default transparent background. But when I load the export into Adobe Premiere, I only get the colors and no emissions whatsoever. Do you have any recommendations for that situation? Thank you!
Oh yeah that’s an issue. There’s no real way to fix that, that I know off. You can either do everything in Blender; so just import your footage there and use it as the background, or you can render out your video with a black background including the emission. Then just use it in your video editor of choice with screen settings. Won’t look ideal, but it’ll sort of work.
Can this work with realtime audio? Like I wanted to implement with script into website. So any case possible?
Hi! I've gotten this question recently and as far as I know there is no current 'easy' way of doing this. However, if you know Python, you could write a custom addon which would allow to import realtime audio in Blender I suppose. But I have no idea how tto do any of that, haha! Good luck 👍
i'm trying to add an image background to the visualizer but it's stuck with a black background so my background isnt showing underneath. any tip?
Yeah either do it in post with the Visualisations set to screen mode so it gets rid of the black, or just add an image as a plane in your scene and use that as the background. Just align it with the camera and voila
Hey Kaizen, I followed all steps very carefully and went back through the video twice, everything is good until I get to shading, the object won't emit any light and I can't figure out why... any ideas of where I went wrong?
Did you add a ‘set material’ node in the geometry nodes and selected the proper material here? :-)
@@KaizenTutorials what's a set material node...
I can't find that
@@KaizenTutorials never mind I got it now!!
Cleared up now✨
Glad you got it solved!
@@KaizenTutorials sorry for bothering you a lot but let's say I want to change the speed of the wave moving manually.
How do I exactly do that
This is great. Thanks! How would I get this to react to the frequency bands and not to dB instead? Like an After Effects Audio Visualiser?
As far as I know the only thing you can currently do is seperate based on frequency ranges when you import the track. So let's say you add a motion on the Z axis (so an object moves up and down based on sound), then you can hit 'Bake sound to F-curve'. In the window that pops up you can select lower and higher end frequencies. This is what Blender will use to determine what range of the sound/song is imported. Afterwards, however, there is no way to tweak it.
To seperate instruments to get different instruments doing different effects e.g. you'd be best off getting a track with seperated track sounds. This would make your life a lot easier, because else you'll be manually looking for the right frequency bands for each instrument.
Hope this helps!
Unfortunately I don't see a keyframe in the timline. So the key in wave texture in geometry node. Therefore it is not in the graph editor. I use blender 4. I would be happy if you could help me. Greetings from Berlin
Make sure to select both the node and the object and it should appear!
Is there a way to still make this without geometry nodes? My pc cannot run blender 3.0 and above.
I don't really think so. It can probably be done using some shader magic, but I for sure don't know how to! Sorry..
my wave keeps floating whenever the audio is silent. I just did what u said but my wave keeps floating up and down when the audio go's silent
Hmm that's strange. It's probably picking up some nominal frequencies still. I'd try playing around with the map range nodes and color ramps to see if you can get rid of it.
i did follow the Shading part exactly and couldn't make the bloom / emission to work for nothing...
Did you make sure to select a material within your Material node in Geometry Nodes?
@@KaizenTutorials Thanks for the response, I checked the material and it was fine, I later discover that the Sky in world settings was too low, setting higher numbers helped, since not even the standard material was showing up properly before
No worries. But tbh it shouldn’t have to have any external lighting if you have an emission shader. Since the emission is providing light! But if you’re working in Cycles instead of EEVEE you could have some issues with that for sure.
If you can’t get it to look as you want feel free to send me an email @ kaizentutorials@gmail.com.
I got everything until shading but i cant change the color my version is newer too. 4.2.3 can smn help?
Color is done in shading. Just need to set the material.
blender can make all what can do aftereffects?
No, but it can do a lot of motion graphic stuff for sure!
the bloom is not working and i have the same settings
Are you using emission in the shader settings? Maybe set the emission strength a little higher?
@@KaizenTutorials i figured it out. its the contrast.
Great!
how do we make this so it works with live audio ?
As far as I know there is no way to take live audio and use this as the basis. It would require writing a custom plug-in in Python or using a different software entirely.
Heya, I've been having some trouble when seeing the red line in the graph editor. I don't see it, I unchecked only keyframes from selected channel to see the key frame in the timeline but the red line would not show in the graph editor.
You have to make sure you've selected the node to which you've applied keyframes within Geometry Nodes. Did you do that?
@@KaizenTutorials Thank you! I had this exact issue myself, and this fixed it. Your tutorials are amazing!
Thanks!
Hey, Awesome tutorial. I would like to add a JPEG picture as a background for this animation. Do you have any tips on how I can do that?
Thanks 🖤🖤
Thanks a lot! That’s actually pretty simple. Either do this by just adding in an image as a plane (you need to enable the ‘import images as planes addon first) and place it behind the geonodes setup. Another options that might give better results is to use the image either within the compositor and alpha over the waveform, or use it as a background image for the camera! Many options as you see haha, good luck 👍🏻
@@KaizenTutorials It worked, thank you so much. You are the best 🖤
Awesome! Glad it helped 🙌🏻
Hey nice video but my texture is not showing
You have to add a set material node in the geonode system and SELECt the material there!
great tutorial! just wondering how to render and save the file to share with friends? I tried to render it as an animation and it came out all wonky lol
Thanks! So you would need to make sure you have the right settings. Render in any resolution you want (I used 1920x1080), make sure you go to the output and change the file format to FFMPEG video. Open up the encoding tab and change it to MP4. Then set the quality to perceptually lossless and make sure to choose a save location aswell. Oh and make sure to enable audio in the export and use the AAC codec for the audio. That should result in a good video which you can share!
@@KaizenTutorials awsome! that worked perfectly, I was just exporting it to the void in my computer before lol
Why nobody says how to use it outside of blender?! Or I have to listen music in Blender?! I NEED ANSWERS 😭😭😭 How to export it?!????? Why it renders into PNG ?!? SOS 🆘
Sadly you can't :-( You'll have to create a custom app for that. So I guess you'll have to listen to music in Blender now hahaha. Btw you can render it out to whatever you like; video, PNG etc.
@@KaizenTutorials what is the point to render it then😭😭😭🤣 omggg my heart is broken😭🤣
Yeah sorry haha it’s a shame! BUT in the future there will de Blenderapps. Very soon, so then its probably going to be possible!
I literally did that node setup, when you added the wave texture to animate it, mine didn't move how do I troubleshoot that
Hmm ok, yeah these GeoNodes videos are outdated, so some behaviour may work differently. However displacement should largely still work the same. Do you have enough points? Can you ensure displacement works with a different node?
@@KaizenTutorials I figured it out, I wasn't hitting the divide button. I was hitting backslash
@@KaizenTutorials thank you for your informational video
FYI, I tried a .WAV file first and that didn't work. Using an .mp3 did the trick.
Good to know! I thought it did work with .WAV but maybe I was wrong. Thanks for sharing!
@@KaizenTutorials I used this tutorial on my latest video. I learned a lot and it was a great starting point for what I want to do, so thank you!
Awesome!
EDIT: Fix in my comment in this chain
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I'm trying to make the waveforms (horizontal wave texture scale) to be be as close as possible so I can make it a much longer waveform but multiplying the value just gives odd shapes, I know we can't do anything to modify the baked audio but I figure there must be a way within the node tree to cheat this?
Also I noticed another comment say they had it follow a curve so I figured I'd try to animate that but it only deforms no matter what combination of modifiers n constraints I try.
I'm guessing the only way to do such a thing would be within this node tree somehow, how much work do you think that would be?
(I figured mesh to curve after the final node then curve to.. something or a raycast but I have the dumb when it comes to nod.. everything)
I'm not sure I really understand your questions. Feel free to send me an email at business@kaizen3d.com with some screenshots and a more in-depth explanation so I can better help you.
@@KaizenTutorials In setting up an example of what I was trying to achieve, I realised the follow curve modifier/follow curve constraight don't work the way you'd expect for some things.. I found the work around which is by keyframing the movement of whatever you want to follow the curve, in the world space.
It's been a while since I've used that constraint/modifier combo, sorry for the dumb question
Love from Indian bro plzz make some tutorial for donught in blender( eddited : in eevvee )
Thanks! Ill consider it but I think Blenderguru already has doughnuts covered quite well 😜
when i typed #frame/2 it didn't do nothing.
that's weird... you typed it in a data field on a node?
Type only frame/2 without ”#”
slow down mannnnnn
Noted, thanks for the feedback!
Hello, you speak too fast and do things before explain them, no keys assistance displayed, thumb down sorry ...
Sorry to hear that, thanks for the feedback!
This is not a waveform at all. It's faking a waveform with swiggles that look reminiscent of a waveform, but it's just a loudness visualizer. I was hoping to find a way to visualize the frequencies spectrum like you get in actual waveforms.
You got me! Indeed it's not a waveform. Blender can't process individual frequencies in such a way that we can create an actual waveform. Atleast, not that I know of. So this is more of a compromise. Looks pretty good though I think haha and that's what counts right?
@@KaizenTutorials Yeah, someone might have to create an add-on (if it hasn't already been done) for Blender that does exactly what I want. This video did introduce me to geometry nodes and baking sound into animation. And via combining many other resources I did end up making something I'm happy with for my music.
Yeah they should! I’ve heard they might implement some sort of sound node eventually in GeoNodes. So that sounds promising. Anyways, super glad to hear you did get something out of it. Thanks!
Warning to anyone planning on doing this tutorial. You won 't learn anything. It is just show and copy, no useful information at all. The uploader would have been better to just make the Blender file available from all you will learn from it.
Ok, so what would you have liked different then?
Can this work with real-time audio? Like I wanted to implement with script into website. So any case possible?
It could but it would require some custom python coding I think. I definitely don’t know how to do it myself haha