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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: hogcia on July 15, 2013, 08:17:56 pm

Title: How to use HyperPin with LedBlinky for Audio animation only?
Post by: hogcia on July 15, 2013, 08:17:56 pm

 :banghead:I am at the last stages with my visual pinball cabinet, about 95% done. It all works good.

I hope someone can help with my last hurtle. I have a new Ledwiz and 5 RGB lights, they all work perfect.

All I want is to have the lights animate to sound when I start the hyperpin/visualpinbal.

I cant find on how to do this, what settings do I use in ledblinky to enable audio animation?

There is no option for HyperPin in ledblinky. I wouldn't mind if the lights animate with any sound on the pc nether, not just the emu. thanks for any help

Alex

Title: Re: How to use HyperPin with LedBlinky for Audio animation only?
Post by: arzoo on July 16, 2013, 01:28:11 pm

LEDBlinky does not have native support for HyperPin, but you can still use it to animate your LEDs with the pc audio;

First, configure your Device/Port Inputs using the GenLEDBlinkyInputMap app. Since you’re only using LEDBlinky to animate your LEDs, you don’t necessarily need to specify any keyboard/joystick input codes.

Next, using the LEDBlinky configuration app, select 'Other Front-End' on the FE menu. Then, on the Audio Animation tab, configure how you want to sync the LEDs with the audio. There are a lot of options – refer to the Install and Config.pdf for help.

Finally, to run your configured audio animation, launch LEDBlinky using the following command line option:
c:\..\ledblinky\ledblinky.exe audio.lwax.

Title: Re: How to use HyperPin with LedBlinky for Audio animation only?
Post by: hogcia on July 16, 2013, 09:25:29 pm

Hi arzoo, Thank so much for your quick reply. So, I followed your instructions and so far so good, I got the lights to animate to the sound! :notworthy:
 
The only part I am stuck now is the last one. Cant figure out how to run my configured audio animation. Do not know how to do the command line option thing. I do not see the "audio.lwax." file. Can you give me an example? thanks for helping.

Title: Re: How to use HyperPin with LedBlinky for Audio animation only?
Post by: arzoo on July 17, 2013, 10:40:02 am

Sorry for the confusion - there actually isn't any audio.lwax file, that's just a parameter value which tells LEDBlinky to run the configured audio animation.

Try this; open File Explorer and drill down to the ledblinky folder. Then from the Windows start menu, click Run. Drag the ledblinky.exe file into the Run window. You should see something like "c:\some path\ledblinky\ledblinky.exe". Move the cursor to the end of the command and add " audio.lwax". The complete command should look like this:

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"c:\some path\ledblinky\ledblinky.exe" audio.lwax
Click OK. That should start LEDBlinky and run the audio animation based on your configuration. If all is working, you can use the same run command in a script or batch file.

Title: Re: How to use HyperPin with LedBlinky for Audio animation only?
Post by: hogcia on July 17, 2013, 09:49:20 pm

Nice! It worked. Thank you so much for your help. I will be uploading a video.  :notworthy: