foo_amBX - amBX support for foobar2000

[ThaSchaap]

Hola!

Couldn't sleep, so decided to invest some time into the SDK of my favorite music player. It's a DSP module, so you'll have to add it through the preferences pages in the file menu.

You can download foo_amBX here.



Enjoy!

Edit 1: amBX wiki page with installation instructions
Edit 2: due to problems the file was outdated, please download again
Edit 3: fixes
Edit 4: v0.2 released
Edit 5: v0.3 released (new: updates per second configurable)
Edit 6: v0.4 released (bugfixes, more configuration options)
Edit 7: v0.5 released (much better light mixing)
Edit 9: v0.6 released (improved mixing, better bass response, some color presets)
Edit 10: v0.7 released (tweaked color presets, added spectrum presets)
Edit 11: v0.8 released (configurable temporal buffering)

[Milmoor]

Well done, foobar2000 is a very popular player. I don't use it myself, but you'll have helped others. It's good to see the amBX SDK is being used.

[ThaSchaap]

It turned out there was a major show stopping bug for most users in version 0.3 (thank you, money, for finding it). Please download v0.4 which has improved much in terms of features too.

If you encounter any problems please PM me so we can resolve it General feedback is welcome in this thread.

[MiL0]

thanks!

can you mention briefly how the controls work? Like, is it based on hz/khz?

basically I want to get all 3 lights going in time, very simply, to the tempo of the kick drum... can't seem to get anything like that... only the middle light... any ideas?

[Gaiajohan]

What does the kick attenuation and kick window exactly? I can't find out what it exactly does..

[ThaSchaap]

Thank for all of your kind replies so far

can you mention briefly how the controls work? Like, is it based on hz/khz?

The module takes the frequency information (pretty much those moving bars on audio players) and tries to translate them into light. Currently 3 colors ('Color preset') are mapped to specific parts of the whole spectrum (0-20khz). You can select this mapping with 'Spectrum preset'.

What does the kick attenuation and kick window exactly? I can't find out what it exactly does..

The kick window is the width (starting at 0 hz) of low frequencies (the range being the 'window') being considered for the 'kick'. The kick is basically a prefined color (white in the elemental preset) which is fired from the North location. The attentuation specifies how dominant this is. Since the driving of the other lights was pretty tame I decided to put it in

In any case the plugin was a nice try but it's kind of basic in what is does. I have posted the source code on my blog, so you can modify it if you want. When I have more time available (or when the new amBX hardware starts to appear) I'll sure be updating/rewriting the plugin. I bet my signal processing professor back when I was in college would recoil in horror looking a the current code

[pakZ]

thanks a bunch for your efforts, mate. i like it pretty much.. finally gave me a reason to ditch wmp completely, where the lights would only work in visualization mode =]

[ninjikiran]

This post has made my day, I use biased lighting from cinelume atm and I have been waiting for the simple to use mad katz kit.

I cant wait to use foobar with this, I am a bit of an audio nerd and this would give me a total nerdgasm!

[JubalHarshaw]

Your efforts are appreciated here too. I've pretty much switched completely to foobar at this point. Thanks again.

[gazraken]

I know I'm a bit late but still want to thank for the foobar plugin.