It's really easy to get things started with just a test..
First, come up with a simple audio clip to test the servos.. like this one:
http://slavjane.org/DeadMenTellNoTales.mp3 It says "dead men tell no tales.." from the Disney ride..
here's a little longer one:
http://slavjane.org/PirateWarning.mp3 d/l it, save it.. then..
With the board NOT powered... plug a servo into the Lynx board, ch1 is good.. skull off for now.. once
it's plugged in, power the board. Open VSA, click on Tools, Load Audio File, find the DMTNT.mp3 file, click it, you should now see the sound in the lower window. Click Tools again, select WaveMotion Analysis, then OK. You should see the bar loaded in the upper window, that's what drives the servo.
You see it's almost a solid bar the length of the sound file. You have to go in an clean it up, removing some of the "sound" from the upper window, leaving the bar just where the actual words are. Takes a little doing but you'll get it. Once the upper bar is "cleaned up" click the Play button(right edge of VSA frame), it should play, the servo should move.
The other way to do it is click-drag the mouse the length of each word in a blank CH1.. meaning do the steps above, but skip the WaveMotion Analysis step. You'll still have the audio clip which drives the servo, but YOU have to make the segments in the upper window to move the servo. That how most people do it. It's cleaner that way, and you dont have to "fix the mistakes"(remove segments) but it does take longer(maybe).. If you want sounds, you can make them, clip them from movies, songs, anything you want, save them in any format, VSA does'em all.. but .wav or .mp3 are the best quality, .wav's are lots bigger tho..
Let us know how it turns out..
TJ
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