David Biederbeck shows how to create animation that is driven by sound in Cinema 4D. David shows how to use a script which will create animation for sound that is progressive, which is slightly different than simply using the Sound Effector in cinema 4D.

…In this tutorial I will explain how to create a progressive animation driven by sound. Using Expresso and Mike the monkey’s script…

The Sound Effector will simply react according to the peaks of the sound wave -which is fine, however the Method that David shows here is that the animation is additive or progressive where the movement is actually built upon itself providing a much more polished look.

There are a couple more tutorials looking at using sound to drive things in Cinema 4D, some of which i have listed here from previous posts…