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Musical fountain software. Here is an example of a residential version of ACCESS hardware. The system has sixteen total channels with eight variable speed pumps and eight 300 Watt channels of low voltage lighting. Musical Fountain Controller and Software. Musical fountain controlling system and multimedia shows solutions provided by Paai and we also provide a customized software and control system as per Musical fountain.we would like to hear your requirements and we will suggest the software and accessories based on your requirements.

Musical Fountain

Technology has changed how musical fountains are run, and the way in which sound & light shows are controlled.

What is common between the laser fountain at Jamshedpur, the indoor musical dancing fountains at Wonderland Amusement Park in Bangalore, the Veegaland Amusement Park and the interactive play fountain at Kochi, and the sound & light show in the Andamans?

The answer: they are all using an infotainment controller, which has the ability to synchronise sound and visual effects. These controllers can be integrated with different forms of entertainment such as laser shows or sound & light shows. We have developed two different infotainment controllers. One, a software-based controller, is both a playback controller and show edit controller. The second is a CD-based controller, which only controls playback.

Infotainment solutions are popular in the tourism industry. Having been behind many dancing fountains in India, we are also aiming to set up fountains and sound & light shows in the Middle East.

A software-based infotainment controller can be used both as a show editor and to control playback of a musical dancing fountain. The software controller has components such as show editor, digital fountain controller (sequencer), Opto isolator relay interface, relay panel, hydraulic controller and audio controller. The show editor software has a response time of one-twentieth of a second, or 50 milliseconds. A keyboard is used to activate the fountain formations or light channels. The software provides all the features to program the songs according to the ability of the programmer and the choreographer. The latter can hear the songs and select suitable fountain formations which suit the beat and pitch of the music. The software allows the choreographer to activate any fountain formation and light effect at any particular time.

The show-control software is the brain of the musical dancing fountain, and the sequencer is the heart. The sequencer receives the signals from the PC, interprets the signals, and routes them to their respective channels and circuits. It is connected to the PC through a serial or USB port, and comes in different capacities depending on the size of the fountain. The sequencer is available in 48 channels, 96 channels and 144 channels capacity. It interprets the signals from the computer, and routes them to the Opto isolator relay interface. It then provides an interface between high voltage and low voltage, takes in a low voltage signal from the sequencer, and gives a 230 V output to activate that particular channel and circuit. The Opto interface isolates the fountain controller from the high voltage electrical controller, and thus acts as an in-built protector of the fountain controller.

Then there is the relay panel, an electrical panel which has contactors to control each fountain formation and light circuit. The relay panel takes in the 230 V signal from the Opto and activates that particular contactor; the panel also has the facility to activate the fountain formations and lights in manual mode for day-to-day maintenance of the fountains. In addition, the relay panel has an SFU unit as a safety requirement.

That’s not all. The hydraulic controller controls the fountain formations, plus there’s an audio controller with an amplifier bank and matching speakers spread over the viewer’s gallery. The audio controller is designed as per the site and customer requirements. Audio signals from the PC are beamed across the gallery through the audio controller.

Overview

Our CD-based standby controller is an only-playback controller used for operating the fountain. Songs are programmed through the software-based controller, then the programmed songs are written onto a CD. This CD is played through a CD or DVD player. The signals are fed to an audio sequencer, which is analogous to the sequencer of the software-based controller. These signals from the audio sequencer are fed in to the Opto. The show value of both the software-based controller and CD player-based controller are the same.

The traditional control system for a fountain is based on PLC (programmable logic controller) and contactors, which are used extensively in factory or electrical controls. These are general-purpose devices that do not provide a general framework for implementing standardised designs. Some of these designs use even tape-based replay systems.

Musical Fountain Software

There are also some manufacturers who adapt the DMX (digital multiplex) controllers (which are used for lighting control) for implementing these infotainment solutions. However, lights do not have the kind of latency that is characteristic of electro-mechanical systems, hence these DMX control-based shows are not well synchronised. What’s more, DMX-based systems depend on the PC for timing out the sequences, and also lack the flexibility of on-line edits, calibration etc.

The latest infotainment controller is custom-made to be a dedicated general-purpose controller meant for a range of applications where a mix of high latency, low latency and zero latency products are used together. (For example, the dynamic movements in a fountain have very high latency, solenoids have lower latency, and light & sound systems have zero latency.) It has also been custom-made for features such as online play-back-edit, which enable the system to learn the latency of any particular channel or device, and adapt it to the entire output. The controller also has built-in redundancy. The 50-milliseconds timing interval of the controller provides close synchronisation. Finally, the design is made dedicated for a variety of infotainment shows, and this enables the user to use one type of controller for the many attractions that may be in operation in an amusement park.

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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
Then while cycling through songs pressing right arrow, the image stopped, however it kept rotating.
I hit escape and got back to itunes. Default itunes visualization plugin works fine but everytime I go back to the fountain, the image is corrupted/scrambled.
I tried uinstalling and reinstalling, no luck.
Mac Pro (about 12 hours old) nvidia 7300 GT. 10.4.9.

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'LOVE LOVE LOVE it!'

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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I absolutely love Fountain Music, after discovering it a good 2 years ago. And the latest version DOES work with iTunes 7, so give it a shot.
One thing I would love to see is support for higher-res monitors; I have 2 monitors hooked up -- one 1280x1024 and one 1680x1050, and unfortunately it won't play on the 1680x1050 monitor. I can just image how awesome it would be with TWO monitors running fountain music at the same time!

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2.0 gave my 450MHz G4 a very noticable speed boost. I would estimate almost 30%!

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'Just plain Excellent!!'

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This is the most hypnotizing graphic experience you can have with iTunes. What a wonderful view of music. Try playing it with NFL Films Autumn Thunder. Just great! It seems to place a lot of amplitude of the splashes on the high frequencies of the music, however it is done quite well. Great job! On an iMac G4 at 1.87 ghz I'm getting an average of 24 fps full screen. Works for me.

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WOW, what an absolutely stunning app! I tried it with two of my favorite compositions (the Rachmaninoff Sonata for Piano & Cello, and Gustav Holst's glorious 'The Planets') and had the most remarkable visual/musical experience of my life. I may never be able to listen to music again without this wonderful application!
Bravo!!

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'Wonderful'

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Wonderful visualiserÃ¢??best I have seen. If you are going to get a visualiser then it must be this one, all others pale into mediocrity compared with fountain. Go for it and do yourself a favour.

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Musical Fountain Supplier

This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.
I really like this plug-in! There are several features I would like to request for 1.2:

A GUI for setting the configs in addition to the runtime configs.
An option to set the persistence of song info & image.
Support for double byte chars, so i don't end up with a bunch of ?s every-time I get non-roman text.

Keep up the good work!

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'Elegant and attractive'

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This is the only visualizer I really like enough to just stare at and watch. Most visualizers (the default one especially) are just big messes. A screen full of trippy colors with lines of varying squiggliness doesn't really add anything to the music. It looks virtually the same for all tracks, and it just gets old.

Fountain, on the other hand, is very elegant, and the visuals actually reflect the music quite well. It's especially nice with instrumental pieces. I'm listening to a lot of my piano tracks now just so I can watch the fountain gush along perfectly with them.

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It's also a lot faster than the default visualizer. On my aging 450MHz iMac DV+, the effect is pretty smooth even in full-screen mode. I rarely see it dip below 20fps, and it usually pushes out 25+. iTunes' default visualizer only gives me 10-20 in full screen, and that's when I have it set to the 'faster but rougher' display mode (which is pretty ugly).

I used to scoff at visualizers, thinking they only detracted from the music, but Fountain proved me wrong. This is a great visualizer, and it really does complement music well. What more can I say? You'll like it even if you don't like visualizers.

Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go back to staring at my Fountain...

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Grand Haven Musical Fountain

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Thanks for this. No problem with installer on Panther. Great effects, simple, to the point. Nicely manageable as well.

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'Great!'

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This is one of the NICEST plugins for iTunes that I have seen. Now that G Force has gone to shareware, this is a very nice one.
great work!!

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