New Gold User: Thoughts

[Sirandar]

Using W7 X64 Media Monkey 4 and an ATI Gaming Card

Overall I am quite impressed with the program. The visualizations are great. Not as elegant as the very best of the Milkdrop visualizations, but far better than most. Works pretty flawlessly on my system.

Maybe Soundscape could get the Milkdrop guys to make some presets.

There were a few issues:

1) Aeon has no built in anti-aliasing control and some of the visualizations look very jagged. The solution is to force 8xAA in your driver but since Aeon has no exe I can find, you have to edit your global 3d profile which could cause issues for some. With AA on the visualizations are crisp and jag free.

2) Exiting Aeon doesn't reset the visualization flag in Media Monkey meaning that you have to activate it twice to get it active again.

3) For Media Monkey 4 the keystrokes described in the documentation don't match the key that actually works for a given function. For example: alt-return does nothing but shift-return toggles fullscreen. The WASD keys don't seem to do what the documentation describes .... more detailed descriptions would be desirable.

[BTT]

Hello Sirandar

Maybe Soundscape could get the Milkdrop guys to make some presets.

What a way to make friends with your first post. Actually it's SoundSpectrum.


Regards BTT

[Sirandar]

I was in no way indicating that Soundscape needed to get MilkDrop guys in on Aeon, but if it could happen it may make the product better. Collaborations are sometimes fruitful ..... but nevermind.

More suggestions:

An end user like myself almost always likes some presets and wants to block others. Aeon has a fairly complex system for picking presets but as far as I can tell no way to both preview them and include/exclude them on the same screen.

If Soundscape could include a preview function on the submenu where all the presets are listed for inclusion /exclusion, it would make life much easier for the end user. Right now all the end user sees is an icon and the name and unless you can memorize the whole list it hard to select deselect presets.

[juxtiphi]

I was in no way indicating that Soundspectrum needed to get MilkDrop guys in on Aeon, but if it could happen it may make the product better. Collaborations are sometimes fruitful ..... but nevermind.

More suggestions:

An end user like myself almost always likes some presets and wants to block others. Aeon has a fairly complex system for picking presets but as far as I can tell no way to both preview them and include/exclude them on the same screen.

If Soundspectrum could include a preview function on the submenu where all the presets are listed for inclusion /exclusion, it would make life much easier for the end user. Right now all the end user sees is an icon and the name and unless you can memorize the whole list it hard to select deselect presets.

First off, FTFY

why dont you call Ryan Geiss and tell him he needs Soundspectrum guys developing milkdrop

you can preview any of the scenes by clinking the scenes icon and then active scenes, there you will see a list of icons, one for each scene. click each icon and the scene will come up. from there you can edit the custom themes to include any scenes you want.

[m2c]

Ah, a preview option would be useful there, we'll look into it :}

[DireWolf]

I know taste is subjective and all and I loved milkdrop for many years but Aeon blows it out of the water when it comes to complexity and what you can create with it. Almost anything in MD could be done in AEON as well as almost anything in AVS Studio. It's like those 2 combined + a lot more. It really looks next gen when compared to MD2.

BTW programming for AEON is a totally different world from MD. Aeon uses Python along with some resources like Color-maps and 3D mesh as well as FMV backgrounds. So the learning curb is extremely steep. You have to know python and create meshes and so on. Not saying they could not manage just that its not easy

[juxtiphi]

Ah, a preview option would be useful there, we'll look into it :}

Hmmm I thought that by clicking the icon and bringing up the scene would be preview enough but I guess its not a preview at all. Oh well

[DireWolf]

About point 1. I also would like a AA option. My PC practically sleeps running AEON now so the AA would be a awesome edition.