Be sure each element audio file has its own unique variable and that each audio element you create has a unique ID. You also want to set some attributes like ID, autoplay, loop etc. The first thing you want to do is use JavaScript to add the audio files directly to the HTML5 page as audio elements.

Let me know if any other information would be helpful, Owen. So, no, I haven't employed JavaScript, and to borrow from my initial post in the other forum, 'if there is a solution, and it involves using Javascript, is there a beginners resource for including that?' She suggested I post here, which is where I'm currently at. Alyssa Gomez was helpful in trying to assist and my own experimenting narrowed down where I was getting stuck but we headed down a track away from js. My initial post in another forum regarding this asked whether Javascript would be necessary. When I looked into this initially, some vaguely similar discussion did mention Javascript. So, as you suggest, it is triggered by timeline start across multiple layers.Įach layer is being muted by clicking an object which hides the layer. To correct what I said earlier, I think each bit of audio picks up from where it was when it was 'muted' (hidden) rather than going back to the start of its timeline. Each layer of audio begins at the same time (putting the audio in sync) when the timeline starts. So, literally silencing individual instruments for a duration of the song until it’s chosen to unsilence them.ĭoes anyone have any thoughts on how I could achieve this?Įach audio file has its own layer. I’m wanting the user to be able to mute any instrument(s) and when they unmute the instrument it will be at the location of the song that the other instruments are at. However, when any track is unmuted, it plays that piece of audio from the beginning, putting it out of sync with the other instruments. When played, all tracks play in time with each other and I can mute tracks. I have audio of each individual instrument. I have had a go at this with some success. So, what I’m hoping it will do is play the track from start to finish and the user can mute/unmute the various instruments, as they choose, throughout the track. To do this, I'm hoping they can hear all the instruments of the song together but be able to remove (mute) and add (unmute) any instrument within the song to be able to hear how their parts and the other parts sit together. I have a Story which I'm hoping will teach musicians their parts for a particular song.

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