Audition Global

Hi.

I bring you this possible help in audition game, not that this will help everyone, but I think it could help quite lots of people. Audition uses 44.1 kHz sounds and many sound cards don't play sounds on 44.1 kHz instead they resample the sound from 44.1kHz to 48kHz (Sound blaster Audigy-series and most of Onboard audios atleast), and then they check what the desired output for the sound card is, for example if its 44.1kHz it would resample it again to 44.1kHz.

Some sound cards altho can play the 44.1kHz without resampling, but usually sound cards first resample to 48kHz and then if the output isn't set for 48kHz it will resample the sound again on fly, which slows down computer quite a lot each time it plays a sound in Audition, like in beat up great or perfect.

So what I did is, that I manually resampled all the audition wav-files into 48kHz, and I tried playing Beat Up. I could really notice the playing being lot less laggy, because I know my sound card always resamples the sounds to 48kHz, and then from there it resamples again to the output I use.

So I used 48kHz output, this can usually be set from sound card settings (44.1kHz, 48kHz, 96kHz and sometimes 192kHz), and since the card resamples the sounds from 44.1kHz to 48kHz, it wouldn't need the second resampling. Now that I manually resampled all the wav-files into 48kHz, the first resample 44.1kHz to 48kHz was neutralised, so the gameplay was far superior from before. In beat up the spamming parts worked like charm for me.

I used ssrc 1.30 for resampling sounds by command:
ssrc --rate 48000 [file_to_be_resampled] [output_of_resampled_filename]

the --rate 48000 means to resample file to 48khz and normal.wav was slightly too short file to resample so i needed to extend the sound for about 10ms, before it could be resampled.

Here are the resampled sounds, and before putting them on use, make sure you make back up of the original sounds, if the game seems to work worse, you can always put the original sound files back.

48khz resampled sounds in filefactory
iFile
Mediafire

Edit:

FMod 3.75 dll-file can also be found in internet. The audi originally uses 3.74, and I think there is some difference in how the newer version makes the sounds, just cannot really say if it works better or worse.

Go to www.fmod.org then select downloads and download FMOD 3 Programmers API. Unzip the file and under the api-folder, there is the fmod.dll that is version 3.75.

Hmm..............gonna try.

But I'm already not laggy in BU.

My PC is soooo laggy (being jurassic in addition ), and sometimes the sound card makes extra "popping" sounds on those... I'm going to grab these when I get home, and hopefully by BU experience would become a bit better.
I'll keep you lot posted.

BTW, I think this applies to any Audition server and is not limited to AuditionSEA, if I am not mistaken.

Ack can't download...

Do you think you can upload it to iFile or mediafire?
Thanks a bunch!
I do want to try this out, beat up seems to lag quite a bit on my computer.

ok I added the files in mediafire and ifile aswell and also put newer version of fmod.dll -file, I found in internet. Audi originally uses 3.74 fmod and the file i found is 3.75. Cannot say for sure if it is better, but I can sense some difference when comparing these two files for auding.

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does the sound come off choppy? too loud? too soft? clearer? or kind of "blurry"?

Well mostly for me the changing of 48khz sounds in playing of beat up makes the game react faster on keyboard presses if I need to spam keys or hit keys in row. Like those songs that have waves in them, like Techno Party, Can Can or Hands Up! for example. These songs have parts where you must press buttons quite fast in row, and when I press one key, it resamples the sound, and when hit second key, I think it reacts lot faster with 48khz sounds. Tho I don't know if this works for everyone, but as said before, lots of cards always resample sounds to 48khz, so it could, or could not help in playing. Also one should check out that the output of the soundcard itself is put on 48khz sounds, that is usually the normal setting if not changed.

As for trying out the fmod 3.75. I think it makes music sound slightly better, like more clear, maybe that is just me. On the otherhand it also feels like it kills some of my perfs when I tried it out.

omg ty it works better!!!! i put it in my kau folder and it works PERFECT!