Bit Frantic...

Mr ChriZ · Post by **Mr ChriZ** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:54 am

I've just bought Whitecap, although waiting
for Paypal to get it's arse in gear and actually send the
payment through =(

So still running the trial at the moment.

I used to run WhiteCap a few years ago on a much
slower machine. Only the free version.
Now I'm running the new version on a modern dual core
machine. It looks great, but on the other hand
seems a lot more frantic than it used to.

I've tried changing the pre-amp and response values
but this didn't seem to help much, just causing the wave
to either be much smaller/non existant, or only appear at
one end of the spectrum....

Is there anyway of slowing down the wave a bit?
Maybe the rate that it returns to norm, or generates trail?

Mr ChriZ · Post by **Mr ChriZ** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:37 am

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?
What are other people running Whitecap on?

The more I watch it the more I feel it just looks way to fast.

Shav · Post by **Shav** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:05 am

Hey Mr ChriZ,
personally I'm running WhiteCap on a single core Intel 3.0GHz, 1GB RAM & 7600GT XXX video card. Using WMP11.

No problems with regards to waves seeming frantic. I've also got the pre-amp & response scale at 1. In saying that I can't really remeber what the old 4.74 looked like. Some waveshapes do look a bit more busier than others but I would presume this is down to the style of the waveshape other than anything else.

I'm not too sure what to suggest, maybe reduce response & pre-amp by a small bit, down to ~.80. Perhaps increasing your frame rate, may makes transitions appear more smooth. At the end of the day, whitecap is responing to the music - maybe stop listening to heavy metal or crazy techno!!!

If you give some examples or a video, the supports guys may be able to help you.

Cheers
Shav

Shav · Post by **Shav** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 10:35 am

Hey ChriZ,
just had a look at some of the preference values in the config and you could possibly edit the following values. They are found in the file Preferences(<Your media player's name here>).txt located in C:\Documents and Settings\<your username>\Application Data\SoundSpectrum\WhiteCap

Try slightly adjusting either or both of the following

FFde - PREF_FFT_FADE_AWAY
The higher this value, the slower each fft element (or "bin") will fall/drift back to zero after it's been excited. Likewise, as this number approaches zero, the faster fft bins will fall to zero. Slower music tends to look better if this value is 30-50% higher than the factory value because frequency "tonals" will accumulate more and will form more defined peaks.

FSmo - PREF_FFT_SMOOTH
As this value increases, the smoothing of fft(0..1) increases proportionally (ie, peaks and valleys will be less jagged). Approximately doubling/halving this number will double/half the amount of smoothing.

Hope they help.
Cheers
Shav

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:10 pm

try these settings

sound responce scale = 20.7

pre amp = 0.17

and the wave shape zoom = 0.54

these are the setting I am currently using

the wav shapes will be a bit smaller and move a little slower

juxtiphi · Post by **juxtiphi** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:24 pm

juxtiphi wrote:try these settings

sound responce scale = 20.7

pre amp = 0.17

and the wave shape zoom = 0.54

these are the setting I am currently using

the wav shapes will be a bit smaller and move a little slower

if these dont do it for you

set the preamp scale to .25 and nock the sound responce scale down notch by notch until the wav shape isnt really freaking out.

it seems the wave shapes are all a little different in size when doing their thing so creating a balance is a bit tough.

Mr ChriZ · Post by **Mr ChriZ** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 1:19 pm

Cheers guys, I'll give those ideas a go.
Still waiting for Paypal to send the payment through.
I don't understand Paypal anymore it used to be instant
but now it seems to take 5 days, which seems somewhat
backward in the digi age.