I have Pangolin Quickshow and Beyond too , and it is sweet.
Just don't buy a ISHOW unless you want to suffer great pain. 95% of people here could agree on that. Besides 64 bit drivers have never arrived for it.
Steve
I have Pangolin Quickshow and Beyond too , and it is sweet.
Just don't buy a ISHOW unless you want to suffer great pain. 95% of people here could agree on that. Besides 64 bit drivers have never arrived for it.
Steve
Qui habet Christos, habet Vitam!
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When I still could have...
Soundcards DACS are OK but you kind of stuck with specific point rates and are at the mercy of whoever wrote the driver you are using and the OS that controls it. I think most people who tried out the soundcard DACs 10 years ago when they were the cheap way out knows the pain of getting drivers that worked correctly. Now you can get a Helios DAC at around the same price and you don't have to do any soldering or deal with finding drivers or weird enclosures. I really wish there was a good soundcard DAC solution that was cheap, but there isn't.
Do you own and use a modified sound device?
The C Media usb chip has been a good solution since it came out in 08 or so. There are also some very good options for internal sound cards.
It might take a bit of tinkering to get it setup at the start but once you get it, it's just fine.
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Yes, but it doesn't work now, after accidentally rolling over it with my chair. I added support in Spaghetti for it with my own driver (not EzAudDac). It works really well once the sound card drivers are sorted out in Windows. There is even a built in UI to change the audio channels to map however you have it set up.
So the moral of this story is that modified sound cards are not reliable because they're prone to getting rolled over by a chair.
You got me. That's definitely a deal breaker.
You know I could make one for you. Right?
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So does Spaghetti currently support all that stuff you mentioned about sound cards?
If not, it should. It would make it just that much more appealing to people who want to explore the art of laser display on a budget.
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I've thought about writing a specialized wave player that would allow you to change parameters as it was playing like x & y gain and offset, color gain, color to scanner delay, channel swapping, etc. But that would be a totally separate app. Having live output from LaserBoy would be kind of weird because LB lets you work with vector art that is not at all optimized for display. So every screen would have to go into a buffer and be optimized before it could go to the scanners and that would not really show you anything important because the whole frame set would still need to be optimized before it could be exported as a wave.
Right now I'm working on the animated math scripting language. I'm going to call it "LaserBoy Liquid Math". Every time I think I have it pretty much figured out, I try to make some art with it and I discover new features to add. I just got through totally rearranging the syntax of the whole thing so it is so much easier to read, write and understand.
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