See’n’Sound 1.0 is a software composed by two applications. The client is an animation paths to MIDI messages converter plug-in for Alias Maya 6. TheServer is a stand alone applications for remote control and routing of MIDI messages to audio workstations.
See’n’Sound (SnS) is a real time plug-in for Alias Maya 5 that fills a gap between video and audio 3D applications.
Translate, rotate and scale XYZ coordinates are extracted from up to eight models’ animation paths of your 3D scene and real time converted into MIDI messages.
Those messages, sent to software or hardware audio workstations, will permit the user to change surround pannings, reverb times, dimensions, type of the rooms and whatever the user needs to achieve a perfect matching between 3D models and audio paths for cinema or video games scene production.
Let's see how to do this with SnS.
See'n'Sound Installation:
The plug-in is composed by two separate applications, the client and the server. They communicate via TCP/IP and it is possible to install them on two different computers, even on two different OS. The client must be installed on the computer hosting Maya, the server can be installed where preferred, even on the same computer of the client.
See'n'Sound Settings:
When See'n'Sound is correctly installed, it prompts a dialog window that let you to open a or to create a new Session. Let's create a new Session. The following window lets you insert base settings. Here you can select the correct SMPTE/MIDI Time Code rate, your Maya scene' range of time and two settings that will affect the MIDI data generation resolution in output: the maximum distance and scale values. Click Ok to confirm and open the See'n'Sound Client main window . Here you can assign a MIDI channel to each object selected in your Maya scene.
When ready select the button "Link Objects".

The plug-in starts to collect data from scene' objects and the process should need some seconds to be performed, it all depends on your scene complexity and on your computer processor' speed.

This operation ends the Maya scene settings part of See'n'Sound workflow and opens, as a result, the last settings window of client plug-in, the MIDI messages assignment window.

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