Pickup sounds that are different for vertex and side

[brettfiedler]

To differentiate component pickup, we'd like two different sounds for picking up a vertex vs. a side

We could start by choosing a pickup/drop set of sounds for vertex similar to Faraday's law.

Perhaps the side length sound could just be a lower set of tones? Can discuss at sound meeting.

[terracoda]

Just an FYI, the pick up sounds in Faraday's Law represent a two-step pick-up interaction. Not sure if it is different from a one-step pick-up interaction like the Hands in RaP or typical slider interactions.

[brettfiedler]

Note by @jessegreenberg during Sound design today:

A pickup sound could be disabled if Voicing is enabled.
Or it might sound nice when we have volume ducking with sound + voicing (issue #185)

[terracoda]

Like Voicing, I think the pick-up sound might be really helpful for people who have trouble seeing the screen or can't see the screen, so I don't think it needs to be disabled when Voicing is enabled.

[brettfiedler]

We liked the Ratio and Proportion sounds as a more "general" sound than Faraday's Law pick up sounds. They are a little too subtle though.

@Ashton-Morris, could you modify the pickup sounds from Ratio and Proportion to differentiate them further? Perhaps the lower tone goes lower still?

[brettfiedler]

WAIT - first. @jessegreenberg, can you implement the sounds from Ratio and Proportion pickup on "mouse down" or touch pick up or on "initial tab focus" (sorry, don't know the code variables here)

• high pitch goes to vertex (grab.mp3)
• low pitch goes to side (release.mp3)

[jessegreenberg]

These sounds were added, back to @BLFiedler for next steps!

[brettfiedler]

From @terracoda's recent interview:

While tabbing through quickly, it was difficult to tell the difference. It won't need much, but a small tweak is fine to quickly address even based on one interview.

@Ashton-Morris , Could you raise the pitch of grab.mp3 from Ratio and Proportion just a bit to differentiate it from the lower pitched release.mp3 that is used for a side right now? I defer to your judgment on what is a small but meaningful pitch change here.

• Raise the pitch of grab.mp3 just a bit to differentiate from release.mp3

[Ashton-Morris]

I have added theses sounds in this folder.

Some I have added a slight click to them to differentiate them a bit more. Choose your favorite one.

• grab-v5.mp3
• grab-v4.mp3
• grab-v3.mp3
• grab-v2.mp3

[brettfiedler]

@jessegreenberg,

• Let's replace the vertex pickup sound with grab-v2.mp3 in the folder Ashton linked.

[jessegreenberg]

OK, new sound for grabbing Vertices was added to the sim (grab-v2.mp3). @Ashton-Morris @BLFiedler can you please review?

[brettfiedler]

Sounds good to me. Definitely a clear difference, but they share enough quality to be the same interaction.

We discussed changing the sounds levels a bit for these and the boundary sounds. I gave that a try in the commit above.

[Ashton-Morris]

Sounds good to me as well. @jessegreenberg I would lower the corner sound down about 10% though since it is higher in pitch. Can you do that?

[brettfiedler]

Done! To make any real effectual change I went a bit further (0.8 -> 0.6). Did you want to review, @Ashton-Morris?

[Ashton-Morris]

Just checked and the changes sound good.