PinSound - General Question(s)

[LaughingElephant]

Hello! I apologize if the 'general' section isn't the right area for this. I looked through and wasn't sure where else to pose this.

 

I have noticed a number of tables have a PinSound alt sound option. I'm wondering if it's something that can work with a front end like Popper.

 

I see that the PinSound system has to be running alongside the table, but am unsure if it's possible for it to "load" automatically.

 

I've tried setting up an altsound from Pinsound for Theatre of Magic that seems really fun, I'm just having trouble getting it working. Before I get too far into it I want to make sure it would run when loading the system and starting the table from the front end, or if the PinSound application needs to be executed first before loading up the table. 

 

I have grabbed a previous version of the application that still works with PinMame per another post in this forum. 

 

Thanks in advance for any advice, experience, and discussion!

[AquaticPlayToy]

I use PinUp Popper to automate the launching and closing of PinSound.

 

Within PinUp Menu I put this code inside StartUp Script 

 

start "" "C:\vPinball\PinSound Studio\PinSoundStudio.exe"

"C:\vPinball\nircmd\nircmd.exe" wait 1000
"C:\vPinball\nircmd\nircmd.exe" win hide process PinSoundStudio.exe

 

Note there is an additional program nircmd I use which can be downloaded freely from here

 

For the closing script I use

 

taskkill /im PinSoundStudio.exe
"C:\vPinball\nircmd\nircmd.exe" wait 1000
taskkill /f /im PinSoundStudio.exe

 

I noticed that sometimes exiting a table PinSound would continue playing so within the Visual Pinball Startup script I adde this code

 

"C:\vPinball\nircmd\nircmd.exe" muteappvolume PinSound.exe 0

 

And upon a VPX table close I added this

 

"C:\vPinball\nircmd\nircmd.exe" muteappvolume PinSound.exe 1

 

So far seems to work well

 

Edited February 26 by AquaticPlayToy