Volume Feedback can't be adjusted.

[Jayk0b]

The Volume Slider does not change the Volume OUTPUT what is given through your mic.
Its only changing YOUR Volume, what you hear, not the others.

Please, change that.



### THREAD HAS BEEN ANSWERED ###

[Dà'àth]

The slider on the main interface is only meant for how you hear the audio. To change the output volume, open the preferences by either, >file >preferences, or clicking the gear symbol on the top right side. Navigate to the "audio" tab, where you will find the section, Volume Normalization. By default it is 89 dB. Lowering it makes the volume softer and vice versa.

[Jayk0b]

Originally posted by ｎｏ'ｏｎｅ:

The slider on the main interface is only meant for how you hear the audio. To change the output volume, open the preferences by either, >file >preferences, or clicking the gear symbol on the top right side. Navigate to the "audio" tab, where you will find the section, Volume Normalization. By default it is 89 dB. Lowering it makes the volume softer and vice versa.

i dont want to change that in the settings everytime... i need sometimes music loud or quiet.

[Leppsoft]

In Soundpad two worlds come together, the one of a regular media player and the one similar to a voice application.

In the media player world you need to have a slider on the main window to adjust speaker volume, because you might have changing setup, i.e. headphones or active speakers, or you may have different applications running, that have their own sound output and you want to have the media player being louder or quieter compared to other applications.

In the voice application world, when it comes to transmitting voice to others, the desired volume level must be in a small constant corridor. A little too quiet can result in no voice transmission at all, because the voice activation threshold of the voice application isn't met and a little too loud may result in distorted sound on the interlocutors end, although it would sound perfectly fine on your speakers.

Therefore, the microphone output volume is configurable in the preferences. The same way you configure your microphone volume level in Windows or in other voice applications, you do it only once in the preferences. Since the best result is to have the played sounds being at the same volume level as your voice, you can let Soundpad measure your voice volume and use the measured value as the desired target volume. See also: Audio configuration[www.leppsoft.com].

There is also another side of the story. When you talk to other people in a voice application, then your interlocutors should be in control of their volume. It's not your responsibility to adjust their volume on a regular basis. This is also a reason why microphone volume configurations are generally hidden in option panels. This doesn't only apply to Soundpad, but to Windows, voice applications, (cell) phones or even headsets. Headsets allow you to change your headphones volume, but not the one of the microphone.

However, if you still want to have louder or quieter sounds, then you can turn off volume normalization, but you have to prepare your sound files beforehand by modifying the volume of each sound file itself.

We're sorry, that the slider in the main window is misleading. There is a speaker icon next to it, but apparently it isn't obvious enough and we'll think about a way to make it more clear, that it only affects the speakers.

[Jayk0b]

Originally posted by Leppsoft:

In Soundpad two worlds come together, the one of a regular media player and the one similar to a voice application.

In the media player world you need to have a slider on the main window to adjust speaker volume, because you might have changing setup, i.e. headphones or active speakers, or you may have different applications running, that have their own sound output and you want to have the media player being louder or quieter compared to other applications.

In the voice application world, when it comes to transmitting voice to others, the desired volume level must be in a small constant corridor. A little too quiet can result in no voice transmission at all, because the voice activation threshold of the voice application isn't met and a little too loud may result in distorted sound on the interlocutors end, although it would sound perfectly fine on your speakers.

Therefore, the microphone output volume is configurable in the preferences. The same way you configure your microphone volume level in Windows or in other voice applications, you do it only once in the preferences. Since the best result is to have the played sounds being at the same volume level as your voice, you can let Soundpad measure your voice volume and use the measured value as the desired target volume. See also: Audio configuration[www.leppsoft.com].

There is also another side of the story. When you talk to other people in a voice application, then your interlocutors should be in control of their volume. It's not your responsibility to adjust their volume on a regular basis. This is also a reason why microphone volume configurations are generally hidden in option panels. This doesn't only apply to Soundpad, but to Windows, voice applications, (cell) phones or even headsets. Headsets allow you to change your headphones volume, but not the one of the microphone.

However, if you still want to have louder or quieter sounds, then you can turn off volume normalization, but you have to prepare your sound files beforehand by modifying the volume of each sound file itself.

We're sorry, that the slider in the main window is misleading. There is a speaker icon next to it, but apparently it isn't obvious enough and we'll think about a way to make it more clear, that it only affects the speakers.

okay still, thank you for your reply.
My original thought was e.g a Smartphone hooked to a physical Audiomixer. So you can configure every line via the slider. because thats what physical audio mixxers do. and then Stereo or mono in ONE audio line to the computer.

I am sorry. And thanks ^^
sorry for my lack of knowledge due the "audio disortion" part.

[EDIT] Im still satisfied with this software, best 5€ of my life spend well.