lash 5 is more than a movie and sound player—it's an application platform. Using a little ingenuity and some ActionScript, you can build a fully-functioning remixer that runs in any Flash-enabled browser A "remixer" is an audio application that allows users to control the volume and pan (the right or left position of sound) of a multi-track recording. A remixer typically has a user interface similar to an audio mixer console, which includes volume sliders, pan sliders, and mute buttons (see figure 1). Users can rearrange or "remix" audio tracks by changing the volume and pan of different tracks at different points in time.

Figure 1. Example of a typical Audio Mixer Console

Try your hand at remixing with the demo Flash remixer. Launch remixer

It's now possible to create a remixer using the Flash 5 player, because Flash 5 supports separate volume and pan for up to 8 sounds playing simultaneously. These features and the fact that Flash is ubiquitous, make it an attractive technology for developing audio applications.

In this article, I'll show you how to build a simple Flash remixer. To get the greatest benefit from this article, you should be familiar with the Flash 5 authoring environment, ECMA compliant ActionScript and basic digital audio concepts.

The example remixer console has one "channel strip", containing a volume slider, pan slider and a mute button, for each track in your song and a master control strip for master volume, pan and mute. Sliders and toggle buttons on the strips, control the audio tracks.

Create a Volume Slider

In this Article
Introduction	Create a Pan Slider	Add Audio Tracks
Create a Volume Slider	Create a Mute Toggle Button	Wiring Your Console for Sound