jetAudio Customizing / Visuals

This jetAudio feature generates animated images based on a piece of recorded music. The imagery is usually generated and rendered in real time and synchronized with the music as it is played.

Visualization techniques range from simple ones, like an oscilloscope simulation,to elaborate ones with a plurality of composited effects. The changes in the music's loudness and frequency spectrum are used as input to the visualization.

jetAudio can use several Visuals like Geis, G-Force and any winamp 2 compatible visuals.
For example, the extern jetAudio Spectrum Visualizer is an small gadget you can use as visualization at your desktop:

How to start an visual ?

Step 1: Download an jetAudio compatible Visual. Some Visuals working with jetAudio you can find here.
Follow the installing instructions of the downloaded File and install the Visual into the jetAudio visual directory
( norm. C.\programs\jetaudio\visuals ).The installing procedure can be different depending on the visual developer.

Step 2: Open the Visualization setup window by clicking the "Visual" Button. This Button can be located anywhere depending on the skin you use. In the default skin you will find the "Visual" Button where the green arrow is pointed on the screenshot: 



Then an context menu comes up:



If you can´t find a "Visualization" button, at the skin you use , you can take the "Alt+K" or "CTRL+K" keyboard shortcut,
or you can right-click at the skin and choose "Sound/Visualization." and then "Visualization" from the mouse context menu:



Now, you have two entries in the sub menu: "Start/Stop Visualization..." and "Config Visualization..."
Click the "Config Visualization..." entry for setup the visualization you want to use.
An new windows comes up where you can change the visual configuration

Step 3: Select the new Visualization and configure it in the Visualization Browser:



1.) All installed Visualizations will be displayed as entries. Check/Uncheck the visuals you want.
2.) Some visuals are an package of more than one Visual. In the Dropdown menu you can select one of the contained Visuals from the package.
3.) If you have downloaded an new Visual, you can  install this to jetAudio by clicking the "Add.." Button.
An search window comes up, where you can select the new visual-DLL File.
If you want to delete an visual from the listing, just click the "Remove" Button.
4.) This Button should brings you to the Cowon Downloadsite, but this link is actual broken. In addition to this, the old Download site of Cowon contains just 2 Visuals only. New Visualizations, you will find better here:  
5.) Here you can set the global graphic frame refresh rate. This config override the configs in the visual dll´s.The more frames per second, the slower your computer (depending on your graphic card)
6.) Press the "Config" Button to set Up the selected Visual Effect. (Read more below the next point)
7.) Confirm your settings with "OK" or Reset it by clicking "Cancel" Press "Close & Start selected Visualization" to run your new visualization.

Step 4: Visuals Configuaration:

The options of change the configuration of the visual you have selected can be different from Visual to Visual.
As example, you can see here the config window of the "Synthesia" Visual:
Normally, you can set the display size (the bigger the size, the slower your computer) and some other features.
Just test out some configurations, and if you have find the optimal settings for you, confirm it with "OK"



Step 5: Run the Visual

Now, you are back in the Visual Browser. Click the " Close & Start selected Visualization " Button. The Browser will close and jetAudio shows you the visual effects.

If you have questions about jetAudio Visuals , just leave your message here: or read the topics for more
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