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Visualisations / Trying to convert AVS preset to MilkDrop, confusing results

« on: July 06, 2026, 08:30:39 AM »

I programmed a preset for WinAmp's AVS which I enjoy a lot. But I wondered if I could convert it to the MilkDrop 2 system. Well, that turned out to be not as easy. And I may have noticed a serious bug.

The MilkDrop 2 plugins in WACUP and foobar2000 differ obviously. While this reports version 2.41.4 and supports up to 4 custom shapes and waveforms which it saves explicitly, that one identifies as version 0.8.14 and supports up to 16 custom shapes and waveforms which it saves minimalistically. {PS: foo_MilkDrop2 is indeed an enhanced fork.}

The elephant in the room here is that the phase display I programmed displays a long diagonal line when the visualizer window frame is clicked or moved, and the right channel spectrum is not visible, so I have to assume that the right audio channel contains garbage values beyond 481 samples of the waveform window (looks fine up to 481, starts messing from 482 samples upwards).

{PS: From time to time there are even more mysterious issues. With the last update I installed yesterday, I see only one quadrant in use, as if all of the values are positive only.}

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Visualisations / Trying to compare AVS versions: visbot archive seems messed up

« on: February 23, 2026, 04:40:23 PM »

When I developed my Ultra Visualizer (yay, took me several attempts but eventually I got it uploaded there), I found that AVS versions 2.81b and 2.81d don't display the SuperScope renderer which is required for my spectrums and phase display. This may have been a compatibility issue with Windows Vista+ (running Windows 10 here).

AVS version 2.82 works well. Never had any crashes with my preset, I guess the numerous reports were caused by different kinds of presets.

Now I got curious if any newer versions do exist. And this quickly started to confuse me. So there is apparently a version 2.83 in the archive of the visbot network. Which identifies as version 2.2 in internal dialogs. 

Also there are seemingly newer versions like: vis_chavs-2.9.dll / vis_chavsmod-2.9.dll / vis_chavsmod-2.9.1.dll ... which appear to be exact copies of that same 7-zip archive as the one I downloaded as version 2.83. 

For some reason, I guess all the files the visbot archive sends me are the same, actually with vis_avs-2.2.dll inside. In case this is a fault of my webbrowser, and you are able to download the correct files, please share them!

I looked hard for any other sources but only found either dead links or github repos with sources only.