Sound Board with Buttons to Trigger Sound Effects from 100+ Categories/700+ mp3 SFX Audio Files.
All buttons on the Sound Board are set to play random/shuffle. Clicking the button again will load the next random audio file in that category and display the name of the audio file in the Audio Scrubber at the top. You can turn on Loop mode to stay on an audio file longer to see if it's something you possibly want to use and to note the name of the file in the Audio Scrubber. Turning on loop mode lets you test tracks with VAMs built in AudioSource looping. Looping in Audacity or VLC Media Player can be different than in VAM so this is useful for testing it as you can use the same plugin/triggers in your scene file to get the same effect.
On the right of the Sound Board, is an additional standalone assetbundle player that plays from the SoundFX Library Ambience category that has 18 ambience tracks. It can be switched out with another button category or you can load in a Music Assetbundle for multi-track testing. You only need to change 3 trigger buttons for PlayPrevious, Play and PlayNext. All the rest of the buttons don't require being updated. (Info provided below on that process)
This uses the SoundFX Library assetbundle which is organized into 100+ Categories with 700+ mp3 SFX audio files:
hub.virtamate.com
Royalty-Free sound effects audio is from pixabay.com. All original Pixabay file names are retained so they can be looked up and searched by file name on there if needed.
The audio file titles are displayed on the Audio Scrubber when played to help you locate it in the Assetbundle to use it as a trigger on a button, in Timeline, on a Menu Bar, in an Audio Player, or however you prefer.
Sound Board Buttons / Categories (108)
Air Conditioner: 6
Airplane: 9
Alarm: 3
Ambience: 18
Angelic: 5
Automobile: 25
Bag: 1
Ball: 3
Bath: 17
Bed: 12
Beeps: 3
Bell: 2
Birds: 2
Blowing: 2
Boom: 1
Bottle Pop: 1
Bounce: 1
Brush Teeth: 4
Bubbles: 8
Button: 9
Camera: 5
Cash: 11
Cat: 9
Chair: 4
Chimes: 2
Clock: 2
Clothes: 19
Cooking: 13
Cough: 1
Creak: 2
Crickets: 2
Crowd: 11
Cup: 6
Dishwasher: 5
Dog: 14
Dolphin: 1
Door: 20
Drop: 3
Eating: 14
Elevator: 7
Fight: 10
Fire: 3
Footsteps: 52
Fountain: 1
Glass Break: 4
Hair Clipper: 1
Hair Dryer: 1
Heartbeat: 1
Helicopter: 2
High Speed: 3
Horn: 8
Hot Tub: 3
Howling: 2
Intros+Transitions: 35
Kiss: 2
Knock: 11
Laser: 7
Laugh: 40
Lawn Mower: 3
Machine: 3
Magic Sparkle: 2
Marching: 1
Microwave: 5
Ocean: 9
Opening Package: 6
Owl: 3
Paper: 6
PC: 3
Phone: 25
Pick Up: 1
Portal: 3
Pour: 5
Projector: 1
Pull: 1
Purse: 3
Push: 3
Rain: 5
River: 7
Robot Arm: 1
Rubber: 2
Running+Jogging: 2
Rustling: 2
Sci-Fi: 36
Set Down: 10
Shower: 9
Sink: 2
Sip+Slurp: 10
Siren: 6
Slap: 6
Slide: 6
Spit: 1
Spray: 6
Stretch: 4
Sweep: 3
Swoosh: 5
System Notifications: 2
Tattoo: 2
Thunder: 7
Toilet Flush: 3
Vacuum Cleaner: 3
Video Game: 33
War: 5
Washing Machine: 1
Waterfall: 2
Whale: 2
Whistle: 6
Wind: 6
Zipper:3
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How To Change The Ambience Player / Single Track Player
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Click Edit Mode / Select (arrow icon) / check Show Hidden
There are two main sections for the player on the Right:
SFX Ambience Player AudioSource (load your Assetbundle)
SFX Ambience Player/SFX Ambience Player Controls (change the control buttons on the player)
First click on "SFX Ambience Player AudioSource"
Click the Plugins tab / and then on the SoundFromAssetBundle plugin click on "Open Custom UI"
Click on "Select AssetBundle"
Click on AddonPackages Filtered and you can search for your Music Assetbundle. If you downloaded any that I uploaded, you can search "VamEssentials". In this example I will click on the Jazz folder.
Inside that VAR folder is the assetbundle, click on that to select it.
You will now see it loaded in the top of the SoundFromAB plugin. You can now click close on this window.
Navigate to SFX Ambience Player Controls and click on the Plugins tab. You will then see VAMStoryActionPlugin which is what is used for all the buttons. Click on the Open Custom UI button.
In VAM Story Actions the Action ID starts on 0 for the first button and shows in the Label box Ambience. In this example I will change it to "JAZZ". It auto saves it there.
1. Under Action ID, click the drop down and change it to 1 to see the PlayPrevious button options.
2. Click the "On Click Trigger button.
3. Click Settings.
Noting was changed on the AudioSource or Plugin. We only changed the assetbundle so you only need to update the Receiver Target. This is the PlayPrevious button so I will select PlayPrevious [jazz 1] and then click Ok and Done to return back to the main button menu.
You can then change the Action ID to 3 and click the "on click trigger" button and go into settings. On Receiver Target, change it to PlayNext [jazz 1] and then click Ok and Done.
Click Action ID 2 and you will see the Stop and Play toggle button options. Click the "Toggle Off trigger" button.
Click on the Settings button.
In the Receiver Target I can search Jazz and click on PlaySpecific [jazz 1]. Then in the Choice Drop down, click on it so it refreshes with the Jazz playlist. Pick the first song in the list so it starts at the beginning and click Ok, Done.
From there you can now test the PlayPrevious, Play, and PlayNext buttons. It now plays Jazz in my example. The other buttons don't need to be updated because they use general AudioSource triggers.
If you like your new settings, you can save them in VamStoryActions so it loads them from your backup in the future. You can do this by going back and under Show, select the drop down and switch it to "Global options".
You can then scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Save Manual Backup". It's important to this if you plan to Save it as a New Scene file for use again later because just Saving it as a New Scene does not save it in the plugin unless it auto saves or you click to manually save it. So do this first, then Save as a New Scene file if you want. You can also use this section to restore from a previous backup.
Now that you know how to update it from a brand new assetbundle loaded in, and have already Saved it, you can restart the scene if you want with the default SoundFX Library assetbundle loaded in.
You can then search for any of the Button categories like "Rain" and then map them to the buttons the same way as above. They all show up in the drop down right away and are searchable by button name.
Action ID 1 = Play Previous = PlayPrevious [soundfx library 1/rain]
Action ID 2 = Play (Toggle Off Trigger) = PlaySpecific and Choice #1
Action ID 3 = Play Next = PlayNext [soundfx library 1/rain]
A very special thanks to @everlaster and @hazmhox for helping make this possible with their awesome plugins. Thank you!
Credits
everlaster.AudioScrubber.1 By: everlaster License: CC BY-SA Link: https://patreon.com/everlaster
everlaster.SoundFromAssetBundle.1 By: everlaster License: CC BY-SA
hazmhox.vamstory.28 By: hazmhox License: CC BY-SA
VamEssentials.SoundFX_Library_1.latest By: VamEssentials License: CC BY Link: www.patreon.com/VamEssentials
All buttons on the Sound Board are set to play random/shuffle. Clicking the button again will load the next random audio file in that category and display the name of the audio file in the Audio Scrubber at the top. You can turn on Loop mode to stay on an audio file longer to see if it's something you possibly want to use and to note the name of the file in the Audio Scrubber. Turning on loop mode lets you test tracks with VAMs built in AudioSource looping. Looping in Audacity or VLC Media Player can be different than in VAM so this is useful for testing it as you can use the same plugin/triggers in your scene file to get the same effect.
On the right of the Sound Board, is an additional standalone assetbundle player that plays from the SoundFX Library Ambience category that has 18 ambience tracks. It can be switched out with another button category or you can load in a Music Assetbundle for multi-track testing. You only need to change 3 trigger buttons for PlayPrevious, Play and PlayNext. All the rest of the buttons don't require being updated. (Info provided below on that process)
This uses the SoundFX Library assetbundle which is organized into 100+ Categories with 700+ mp3 SFX audio files:
Other - SoundFX Library 1 assetbundle
Royalty-Free SoundFX Library that includes 100+ categories/folders with 700+ mp3 SFX audio files. Sorted by category and converted to a Unity assetbundle, then converted to a VAR. These SoundFX help you add more ambience, realism and immersion...
hub.virtamate.com
Royalty-Free sound effects audio is from pixabay.com. All original Pixabay file names are retained so they can be looked up and searched by file name on there if needed.
The audio file titles are displayed on the Audio Scrubber when played to help you locate it in the Assetbundle to use it as a trigger on a button, in Timeline, on a Menu Bar, in an Audio Player, or however you prefer.
Sound Board Buttons / Categories (108)
Air Conditioner: 6
Airplane: 9
Alarm: 3
Ambience: 18
Angelic: 5
Automobile: 25
Bag: 1
Ball: 3
Bath: 17
Bed: 12
Beeps: 3
Bell: 2
Birds: 2
Blowing: 2
Boom: 1
Bottle Pop: 1
Bounce: 1
Brush Teeth: 4
Bubbles: 8
Button: 9
Camera: 5
Cash: 11
Cat: 9
Chair: 4
Chimes: 2
Clock: 2
Clothes: 19
Cooking: 13
Cough: 1
Creak: 2
Crickets: 2
Crowd: 11
Cup: 6
Dishwasher: 5
Dog: 14
Dolphin: 1
Door: 20
Drop: 3
Eating: 14
Elevator: 7
Fight: 10
Fire: 3
Footsteps: 52
Fountain: 1
Glass Break: 4
Hair Clipper: 1
Hair Dryer: 1
Heartbeat: 1
Helicopter: 2
High Speed: 3
Horn: 8
Hot Tub: 3
Howling: 2
Intros+Transitions: 35
Kiss: 2
Knock: 11
Laser: 7
Laugh: 40
Lawn Mower: 3
Machine: 3
Magic Sparkle: 2
Marching: 1
Microwave: 5
Ocean: 9
Opening Package: 6
Owl: 3
Paper: 6
PC: 3
Phone: 25
Pick Up: 1
Portal: 3
Pour: 5
Projector: 1
Pull: 1
Purse: 3
Push: 3
Rain: 5
River: 7
Robot Arm: 1
Rubber: 2
Running+Jogging: 2
Rustling: 2
Sci-Fi: 36
Set Down: 10
Shower: 9
Sink: 2
Sip+Slurp: 10
Siren: 6
Slap: 6
Slide: 6
Spit: 1
Spray: 6
Stretch: 4
Sweep: 3
Swoosh: 5
System Notifications: 2
Tattoo: 2
Thunder: 7
Toilet Flush: 3
Vacuum Cleaner: 3
Video Game: 33
War: 5
Washing Machine: 1
Waterfall: 2
Whale: 2
Whistle: 6
Wind: 6
Zipper:3
....................................................................................................................................................
How To Change The Ambience Player / Single Track Player
....................................................................................................................................................
Click Edit Mode / Select (arrow icon) / check Show Hidden
There are two main sections for the player on the Right:
SFX Ambience Player AudioSource (load your Assetbundle)
SFX Ambience Player/SFX Ambience Player Controls (change the control buttons on the player)
First click on "SFX Ambience Player AudioSource"
Click the Plugins tab / and then on the SoundFromAssetBundle plugin click on "Open Custom UI"
Click on "Select AssetBundle"
Click on AddonPackages Filtered and you can search for your Music Assetbundle. If you downloaded any that I uploaded, you can search "VamEssentials". In this example I will click on the Jazz folder.
Inside that VAR folder is the assetbundle, click on that to select it.
You will now see it loaded in the top of the SoundFromAB plugin. You can now click close on this window.
Navigate to SFX Ambience Player Controls and click on the Plugins tab. You will then see VAMStoryActionPlugin which is what is used for all the buttons. Click on the Open Custom UI button.
In VAM Story Actions the Action ID starts on 0 for the first button and shows in the Label box Ambience. In this example I will change it to "JAZZ". It auto saves it there.
1. Under Action ID, click the drop down and change it to 1 to see the PlayPrevious button options.
2. Click the "On Click Trigger button.
3. Click Settings.
Noting was changed on the AudioSource or Plugin. We only changed the assetbundle so you only need to update the Receiver Target. This is the PlayPrevious button so I will select PlayPrevious [jazz 1] and then click Ok and Done to return back to the main button menu.
You can then change the Action ID to 3 and click the "on click trigger" button and go into settings. On Receiver Target, change it to PlayNext [jazz 1] and then click Ok and Done.
Click Action ID 2 and you will see the Stop and Play toggle button options. Click the "Toggle Off trigger" button.
Click on the Settings button.
In the Receiver Target I can search Jazz and click on PlaySpecific [jazz 1]. Then in the Choice Drop down, click on it so it refreshes with the Jazz playlist. Pick the first song in the list so it starts at the beginning and click Ok, Done.
From there you can now test the PlayPrevious, Play, and PlayNext buttons. It now plays Jazz in my example. The other buttons don't need to be updated because they use general AudioSource triggers.
If you like your new settings, you can save them in VamStoryActions so it loads them from your backup in the future. You can do this by going back and under Show, select the drop down and switch it to "Global options".
You can then scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Save Manual Backup". It's important to this if you plan to Save it as a New Scene file for use again later because just Saving it as a New Scene does not save it in the plugin unless it auto saves or you click to manually save it. So do this first, then Save as a New Scene file if you want. You can also use this section to restore from a previous backup.
Now that you know how to update it from a brand new assetbundle loaded in, and have already Saved it, you can restart the scene if you want with the default SoundFX Library assetbundle loaded in.
You can then search for any of the Button categories like "Rain" and then map them to the buttons the same way as above. They all show up in the drop down right away and are searchable by button name.
Action ID 1 = Play Previous = PlayPrevious [soundfx library 1/rain]
Action ID 2 = Play (Toggle Off Trigger) = PlaySpecific and Choice #1
Action ID 3 = Play Next = PlayNext [soundfx library 1/rain]
A very special thanks to @everlaster and @hazmhox for helping make this possible with their awesome plugins. Thank you!
Credits
everlaster.AudioScrubber.1 By: everlaster License: CC BY-SA Link: https://patreon.com/everlaster
everlaster.SoundFromAssetBundle.1 By: everlaster License: CC BY-SA
hazmhox.vamstory.28 By: hazmhox License: CC BY-SA
VamEssentials.SoundFX_Library_1.latest By: VamEssentials License: CC BY Link: www.patreon.com/VamEssentials
