Is Beat Sync still supported in 2.11? Could Never get it to work.

Richardh · Feb 28th 2012

I have tried versions 2.10 and 2.11 of DMXControl and could never get the winamp AVS to work. I noticed in 2.11 that the AVS support for the Sound Analyzer was dropped so now you can only use Winamp VBlink. The beatTool still has the WinAMP AVS Plugin but I could never get it to work. I was able to get the AVS plug in with DMXControl support working in 2.10 with the Sound Analyzer but the beattool Winamp would never work.

Running Windows 7 64bit and was wondering if anybody has been able to get this to work with this OS.

Anybody using any other methods to sync DMXControl to a beat? I was thinking I could use MIDI to send the beat and have it advance to the next step in the effects/chasers tool. I can't find a decent simple plugin that will take an audio input and send midi commands.

Here is a video of me trying to get the AVS with the beattool to work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsuGJ8c3nKg

***JPK*** · Feb 28th 2012

Hi Richardh,
Windows Vista and Windows 7 have an inbuilt "User Account Control" (normaly, nobody including the administrator have administrative rights) to prevent Virus-attacks, etc. However, some tools needs those rights to run. For the plugins for DMXC exists a workaround. There is the "PluginAdministator.exe"-tool in the programfolder. Start the tool, and check all plugins listed in both lists ("Output plugins" and "Application plugins"). With this tool, all plugins (including the Beattool) should work again.
Regards
JP

Richardh · Feb 28th 2012

Thanks for the info. I tried that and could not get it to work. I found out that if I changed the settings on winamp so it always runs as administrator it started working!

***Stefan Krupop*** · Feb 28th 2012

Quote from Richardh

I noticed in 2.11 that the AVS support for the Sound Analyzer was dropped so now you can only use Winamp VBlink.

The AVS support was not dropped, but the configuration option to decide whether AVS or VBlink is used was moved to the program settings.

Kind regards,
Stefan

***Stefan Krupop*** · Feb 28th 2012

Quote from Richardh

I found out that if I changed the settings on winamp so it always runs as administrator it started working!

Is it possible that you are running DMXC "as Administrator" too? If so, this is the expected behavior, as the UAC blocks sending messages from lower security levels (Winamp with "normal" rights) to higher security levels (DMXC with "administrator" privileges).
When the Plugins are correctly registered, DMXC does not need Administrator privileges and can be run as a normal user.

Kind regards,
Stefan

Richardh · Feb 29th 2012

Thanks Stefan for the info! I was running DMXC as Admin so that was the issue and makes sense now. I have both of them running normal and it is working.

Also thanks for the info on the location of where the AVS setting is now.

Here is a little video of the beat sync working with winamp.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sVtfSCn6HQ

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