Is there a way to get the volume of a sound as it is playing, analogous to the Pitch UGen?
I was interested in using it with a LPF on a sound. If I change the frequency of the LPF over time, the sound will get louder or quieter, and I was hoping to use some sort of live monitoring process to make amplitude adjustments to avoid this.
Yes, you can use Amplitude to track the level of a signal.
https://doc.sccode.org/Classes/Amplitude.html
But you might be more interested by the Compander, which will amplify or reduce a signal below or above a threshold (or both).
https://doc.sccode.org/Classes/Compander.html
You might also have a look at Normalizer and Limiter Ugens, which have similar effects.
Note that the human ear do not perceive a constant sound pressure at every frequency as loud : Equal-loudness contour - Wikipedia . So this might not be related to the Amp parameter directly, but just a ‘problem’ of perception.
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There is also a Balance UGen in sc3-plugins that compensates a signal against a test signal.
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