Windows Core Api visualisation using Razer Chroma written in C#.
I started this project mostly to get more familiar with a couple of things:
- Using WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) with C#.
- Working with DLL and COM in C#.
- Working with more hardware related API's (This project uses the Colore API for controlling the lights on Chroma keyboards).
- Working with more specific C# related conventions.
I had alot of fun learning about these techniques (especially COM), though they were a bit confusing at first, and would love to help others in learning about it too. That's why I provided as much documentation as required in the project itself on utilising COM.
Start visualisation by pressing the big buttons stating "start visualising audio" (to state the obvious, I know) /n These variables will alter the output depending on whats been set:
- From Speakers: This will cause the program to retrieve it's data from the default connected speakers.
- From Microphone: This will cause the program to retrieve it's data from the default connected microphone.
- Static Color: Will cause the keyboard to be lit in only one color, currently that's green.
- Ramp Color: Will cause the keyboard to be lit based off of a ramp defined in the ColorPicker class.
- Random Color: Will cause the keyboard to be lit with a random color.
This is the interval in miliseconds that happens between every update of the keyboard, adjust the slider to see its effect.
Incoming audio will be multiplied by this factor, for sake of ease I added a threshold of 0.05 near the 1 value.
If the slider value falls within that range audio will not be amplified yet. (the value should also display "None")
Documentation is provided in the sourcecode as comments where I felt it would be most helpful. I've also provided some extra examples in AudioUtils on how to retrieve COM objects.
If you have an idea or cool feature with which I (or you, I won't mind a pull request ;) ) could improve this project feel free to open an issue on github.
Other libraries about Windows Core Audio API:
Naudio
Coreaudio-dotnet
Cscore
I didn't use these 3 libraries directly but they did provide a lot of very useful examples :)
Special thanks to Simon Mourier and Sverrir Sigmnudarson for providing some excelent example on how to use the Windows Core Audio api in your C# projects.
