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Rainbow Rings
What kind of settings do you like?
I'm not really an expert in this to be honest, I might post my settings here later but they aren't great. I'm just curious if anyone has some settings they have tried that they really like.

Particularly the equalizer settings, I can't for the life of me figure them out. It feels like they either do nothing sometimes while other times things change but I can't figure out what the changes actually were. Would love to see some suggestions for those because I don't like how some frequencies seem to get picked up too much while others don't get picked up enough. I'm using a built in equalizer on my pc so my bass is a lot higher than it is on normal pcs, so the bass on the equalizer is way too sensitive.
Last edited by PIECEofTOAST; Mar 2, 2017 @ 4:19pm
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Squee  [developer] Mar 15, 2017 @ 4:46pm 
Sorry, Slow reply :)

EQ:
- whiteline is the dampening factor. It actually adjusts the results by that line.
- green line is the resulting data, but scaled to always fit between the lines and never under or over the red lines. Scaled to match the value range 0 and 1 so to speak.. This is partly what might cause it to seem it has no effect, as it is always stretched, even if the value is lower after processing, it might still be the highest peak. In those cases the lower values come up a little instead. The effect is strengthend more if you use the global strength value and lower that.

It's not a perfect EQ and it was mostly built in to lower the bass values for certain genres of electronic music where the bass just has so much power behind it that the rest of the frequency has a weaker (visual) response and I was trying to balance that. So the goal in the settings is to try as many green lines to reach the red line at the top so left/mid/right is all balanced nicely as it create a nicer effect.

If you listen to certain types of music I suggest trying to find a setting that balance out the visual response accross all frequencies instead of a certain range, like bass dominating.
If you listen to varied music I suggest you turn it off, or leave a little reduction for the low frequencies.
Lovely Ribbon Mar 27, 2017 @ 4:50pm 
Originally posted by Squee:
Sorry, Slow reply :)

EQ:
- whiteline is the dampening factor. It actually adjusts the results by that line.
- green line is the resulting data, but scaled to always fit between the lines and never under or over the red lines. Scaled to match the value range 0 and 1 so to speak.. This is partly what might cause it to seem it has no effect, as it is always stretched, even if the value is lower after processing, it might still be the highest peak. In those cases the lower values come up a little instead. The effect is strengthend more if you use the global strength value and lower that.

It's not a perfect EQ and it was mostly built in to lower the bass values for certain genres of electronic music where the bass just has so much power behind it that the rest of the frequency has a weaker (visual) response and I was trying to balance that. So the goal in the settings is to try as many green lines to reach the red line at the top so left/mid/right is all balanced nicely as it create a nicer effect.

If you listen to certain types of music I suggest trying to find a setting that balance out the visual response accross all frequencies instead of a certain range, like bass dominating.
If you listen to varied music I suggest you turn it off, or leave a little reduction for the low frequencies.

This was very useful information. Thanks for all you hard work! I REALLY wish that the EQ debug was a check box instead of having to change a value slightly every few seconds when I am trying to study the results of the current values!

Great work on Rainbow Rings so far!
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