SPU2ghz Releases

[nexxuno]

thx that was the problem...now the sound is synchronized...so when do you need bigger buffers or more of them?....actually now i can't decide what sound plugin i should use

[GiGaHeRz]

If a game is too slow, and the buffers are too small, it will get all loopy. On the other side, if the buffers are bigger it will still loop, but the loops take more time so they are less annoying. The problem is the lag.

[gamersat678]

Originally Posted by GiGaHeRz

hmmm... does that game work better with other sound plugins? could be something else, but if it works in other plugins then I'll take a look at that game.

The game sound/music doesn't have any problems with ZeroSPU2 0.4.6.

[Oemenia]

GTA SAN ANDREAS - Sound loops

[rama2]

Giga knows about the occasional loops, dont worry, they'll get fixed eventually. Its just not
as easy as it sounds

[domat7]

The SPU2ghz sound plugin is cool because the Sound Effects are not SO loud unlike ZeroSPU. But in ZeroSPU there is no cracking as far as I know.

[xcedf]

GiGaHeRz man you are awesome, i've tested Crash TwinSanity and i've got all the sounds, other plugins couldn't do it)) I wanna tell more it's fully playable only with Spu2Ghz, there is a place when game stops if you use other Spu2 plugins))
Thanks, great job, keep it up

[Oemenia]

Originally Posted by rama2

Giga knows about the occasional loops, dont worry, they'll get fixed eventually. Its just not
as easy as it sounds

LOL yep, hes pretty awesome = D

[GiGaHeRz]

1.9 is up! Timestretching, winamp DSP plugins, and other stuff not so much worth mentioning. Check the changelog in the release RAR in the first post for more details.

As a note, to use winamp DSP pugins I recommend getting Multiple-DSP Stacker, which will allow you to easily change DSP plugins and configure them. To enable it you will have to edit the .ini file and manually point it to the path of the DSP dll and the module number (normally it's 0, unless it has many choices in 1 dll).

[rama2]

With this release many conveniency problems are gone
We now have very few loops, even at too slow / too fast emulator speed.
We have working savestates (no problems with them so far).
To make the sound awesome we can now use winamp dsp plugins like stereo tool.

If you have a 5.1 sound system try the 5.1 output module and broaden the stereo
image with stereo tool. It sounds fantastic.
(Be advised that the channel volumes might need to be adjusted in the spu2ghz.ini)

[satanic666]

1.9 don't work with load state. pcsx2 will be crash when load state.

[GiGaHeRz]

did you save the state with 1.9? it will not work well if you saved with an older version or a different plugin

[Hiperzone]

Last issue for me wich is still present on all releases is the sound effects still play wrong for example on Final Fantasy X when switching menu options and other minor sound effects.

[bositman]

Wow time stretching great job Giga I'll try to find some time to test it and report back

[rama2]

Hiperzone, thats a known bug. And a tough one it seems
But it only affects a few games i tested, mainly FF10 and FF12.

[GiGaHeRz]

GAH people! I forgot to disable the stretcher debugging prints in the build. I will release 1.9r2 without that print and MAYBE another fix, soon.

[shuffle2]

no rush giga ^^
did rama help with the timestretching?

[GiGaHeRz]

yeh he helped. Not much of his code ended up being used, but still without him I probably wouldn't have done it.
The thing I was trying to fix turned out to be a failure tonight. I will try again tomorrow and if I can't get it to work I'll revert to the release code and upload the build without debug prints.

[Benny_a]

Hi,
Thanks for such great Plug-in many games are working fine now.
I have a question, I cant find the description in txt files:
What is "Timestretcher" and "Enable effect processing" good for?
I know that when I tested this features one by one or both they give me annoying crackling sound in Persona 3 NTSC, Persona 3 PAL and Persona 3 FES NTSC

Thanks you

[GiGaHeRz]

Originally Posted by GiGaHeRz

Timestretching is a method which changes the length of the audio without changing its pitch. it's used to adapt the sound speed if the overall game emulation speed isn't exactly 100%. Enabling the timestretcher means the "looping" in the audio gets reduced a lot, and in the best cases, you dont' get any looping at all. It is still experimental code, so in some cases it can work wrongly, which means you can use it, but its on your own risk.

The effects processor is a component of the SPU2 hardware nearly identical to the PS1's spu reverb processor. It can be used to add audio effects such as delay, echo, and other ambience effects of that style (mostly delays and echos with different kinds of resonance). The implementation I have was extracted from a public document which describes an algorithm to emulate this reverb, but the original code wasn't enterely compatible with my spu2 design so I had to adapt it, and the result is most games using reverb either don't have reverb at all, or produce extremely loud noises. That's the reason I had to include a warning for it!

IMO, the effects processing should be left disabled until I fix it (which is a hard thing to do given I don't know how is it supposed to sound like, or what games use it).

If you have noises or too loud sounds, check the .ini settings and make sure the volume multiplier and divisor are both at 1, and if that's the case, or setting them to 1:1 doesn't fix it, try to set the volumes to 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4. I would like to know the results whether it was successful or not
because this way I can check the game myself, and try to fix it properly.

(I hate doublepost automerging)


I uploaded beta 1.9 r2, which includes a EXPERIMENTAL mixer (yes a new one). It might be too loud for some games, but should generally give more approximate volumes, if I'm right.

Can you people try with games which used to be louder/quieter, and make none of them is extremely quiet, or extremely loud (overflowing)? I'd ike if you could help test this.