Changing wav speed in real-time

FMOD Engine
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Hi! I’m working on a toy for my daughter… it’s a “carousel” that she can spin manually.
I’d like to add a common carousel music but changing its speed in function of rotating speed.
No problem at all to have this information, indeed I already have.

But I have difficulties to find a player (or a library) that allows to change the speed fo a wave file in real-time flawlessly (i.e. without gaps or stuttering). The whole things is Raspberry Pi powered, hence I think there are no problems to run FMOD.

Reading through the documentation I found this function:

https://www.fmod.com/resources/documentation-api?page=content/generated/FMOD_Sound_SetMusicSpeed.html#

that seems to do exactly what I’m looking for BUT it says: “Sets the relative speed of MOD/S3M/XM/IT/MIDI music”. No wav/mp3 then?

Is there another way to achieve this?

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It’s only for those formats because they are note based, not sample based, changing the speed of sample based audio is very different.

But you can do it, using Channel::setPitch. That will increase the speed but also make it high pitched as a result. If that it undesirable, you can in addition add the DSP type FMOD_DSP_TYPE_PITCHSHIFT and make it shift the tone back down so it sounds normal but still fast.

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The changing in pitch is desirable! It’s the effect I want to achieve: higher (or lower) tempo and pitch according.

By the way, what is the difference between Channel::setPitch and Channel::setFrequency?

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I don’t think there is a big difference. Changing the pitch is practically the same as changing the frequency, it’s just a different way of looking at it.

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Ops… sorry for my reply as an answer. I didn’t realize this forum is set up like SO.