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headkaze:

--- Quote from: RandyT on November 28, 2006, 02:34:23 am ---
There is much math involved.  It's not so simple a thing that it can be conveyed adequately without giving out documented source.  And I don't give out source to my software.

I have, in essence, developed a homebrew beat-detection method based on the compression waveforms.  Everyone will do this kind of thing a little differently, so I recommend experimentation.  You might even come up with something better than what I had.  But you can start by carving up the compression waveform data into pieces using weighted averages and act upon the results in a fashion you think will give you the effect you desire.  To be done correctly, there should also be a mechanism or two in place to try to cope with changing output levels between different songs or audio sources.  What you see in the video represents about 40 hours worth of experimentation and some pretty complex code.

There's not much I can offer you on your project in the way of assistance.  I haven't even found the time to finish my project yet  :P

RandyT


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Thanks for the support Randy! Appreciate it.

youki:

--- Quote ---that is completely LAME of you to not give out support to all the coders working hard to support your hardware.
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Headkaze, I think he just said that he won't give his source code.  He never said he won't give  support or help for developper.

I can say  he as been really helpfull  for me  when i implemented LEDWIZ and GPWIZ support for Atomic.
He anwsered all questions i asked,  did all test i asked (and i asked a lot for the GPWIZ...)  and lot of  more.

We had huge mail exchanges.   I can not imagine  how he could do "more" support a coders.

And i really want Thanks Randy for that.  :cheers:

youki:
humm.. it seems you edited your message while i'm typing my response....

headkaze:
Yeah I thought my response was a bit harsh, but I'll answer it anyway...

Randy has supported Atomic from day one, by donating a LEDWiz to Youki and giving you the protocol info so you can write your own dll.

He has not given the same support to any other FE. In fact he refused to give me the protocol info let alone offered me a free LEDWiz. Despite the fact that the GameEx userbase is probably bigger than the Atomic one. I guess it's because Randy has chosen your FE, but it doesn't mean we should suffer because of it.

I have written support for the LEDWiz without even owning one, thanks to loadman who incidently is a Mala user. For some strange reason the Mala and GameEx users don't see this as one big competition, we actually work together to help the scene.

So with that in mind, I have written a plugin that uses MikeQ's DLL which is more than enough for what I need, since Randy's ocx does suck big balls, and is not worth using.

Now, all I ask is that he helps get the LEDWiz going with music, but now I don't expect much of Randy since he obviously doesn't see everyone on the same playing field. Despite that I will figure out beat detection even it means learning Fast Frourier algorithms that would make your head explode. It's just a shame that Randy would rather not support the rest of the scene.

I don't agree with all that Howard says on this board, but he has some pretty good ideas about how Randy's support for developers is lacking.

youki:

--- Quote ---Despite the fact that the GameEx userbase is probably bigger than the Atomic one.
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You can not  really know that. 


--- Quote ---I guess it's because Randy has chosen your FE, but it doesn't mean we should suffer because of it.
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Wrong.  I think he never used my Front End before doing test for me. 

So, the question is why he has been so helpfull with me and lot of others  and not with you or howard.  I don't know....   :dunno


--- Quote ---by donating a LEDWiz to Youki
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Not exactly, It is still Randy property , i will send it back to him when i will have totally completed the support of that device in Atomic.  There are still lot of cool thing with can do with it in the context of a FrontEnd!  :)

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