Hi thewool Thanks a lot for all your efforts.
V1 is so great (currently only in the VPX table with pinsound API)
any info on V2 ?

I may give a try also on raspinsound with my LOTR.
Any news on old pinsound versus new pinsound differences ?

I've heard great things from users of the mix and the videos of it are great. I am just waiting on the mix with the levels straightened out and I will be buying. LOTR was my first pin and one I will never have permission to sell so I don't mind shelling out the loot. I just want to make sure that I won't be disappointed in the sound in person before I pull the trigger.

If anyone has a V2 board that has accomplished a balanced audio mix through file level adjustments, I'd love to hear the feedback on what you think of it now.

So I’m about to buy a pinsound just for this mix. Which version should I buy? I’m confused

I've had a pinsoundboard on my lot since Monday.
LotR OST has a wonderful movie orchestra sound, but the callouts are the old ones.
I tried the soundfile thewool, but here I noticed the following.
No melody when the ball is in the shooter lane.
At various places, no music or the music is choppy.
Callouts are awesome.
Currently I went back to OST because the music is wonderful and without interruptions.
I have a lot of respect for this work and thewool has certainly been a lot of trouble, but for me would have to be reworked here to the LotR to give a perfect sound

Did you try a faster USB key

So I finally upgraded my USB to a faster one and boy what a difference. I liked the way it was before but now there are no pauses and the call outs and music is perfectly synchronized. If anyone has issues with the mix I’d try with a faster usb first

I have the new Version Pinsound + and from Pinsound the sandisk 16 GB highspeed usb
I Hope we can change the problems

Best Regards

I have no idea what it could cause. I can take some pictures of the board this evening and a video as it is with me.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/57eneuvdmxvm6hl/IMG_4560.MOV?dl=0

I’d try another USB, I think I had similar symptoms with my last USB but everything is working fine on the new one. I’m using the one recommended in another pinsound thread, Sandisk ultra. It has a read speed of up to 245Mbps which is higher than yours, maybe that’s the reason

Yes, I remember USBs being extremely fidgety with my pinsound +. I went through 3-4 until I got one that worked right. I think I had to buy a new Sun Disk or something.

Pinsound+ is your only option for the board now and you need the whitestar adapter. After that, you can decide if you want to upgrade your speakers and go away from mono to stereo.

Regardless of whether you upgrade your speakers, be sure to get the stereo cable for pinsound. I missed this initially and was listening to a messed-up stereo mix in mono for longer than I'll admit.

What size USB should I get? What are the largest files out there?

I agree you need stereo for best music sound, however, you can modify the cable that comes with the pinsound board to enable stereo to the backbox speakers, I outline how I accomplished that earlier in this thread if interested.

16GB is plenty

This Is a good one. 16GB Is enough but it has to be fast too
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinsound-card-reviews-anyone/page/27#post-4510452

thewool

The speakers are original ????

I installed pinsound+ in a friends Lotr with the same usb stick as pinsound themselves sell.

I noticed to that when the ball is in the shooter lane their is no music till you shoot the ball and it hits the first switch. For the rest it appears to be OK but if a sound is not played I would not notice it anyway I guess.

Sometimes the sound is a little choppy but my guess this is because of a lack of enough power. I recognized the same issue when installing a pinsound in a friends Elvis. Gonna install an external power supply to overcome this.

The sound mix i used is V1 downloaded from the Pinsound community like 2-3 weeks ago.

I ordered PINSOUND, I can not wait to start this set of sounds.
Thank you thewool

No comment on this eg is this now normal or not?

Have informed Nicolas on the issue with no sound when using Pinsound+ and he is looking into it.

Pinsound has put up a new firmware at

https://www.pinsound.org/help/pinsound-plus-help/

And asks to try it out and see if this fixes this issue. Have forwarded it to my friend who has the LotR. Will report ASAP or perhaps somebody earlier will be quicker to do so.

It works for me, but it also worked for me before the update

Are you having a Pinsound or Pinsound +?

I have just installed the new firmware. it is now a bit better, but it is so from the second ball in the shoterlane no music is played. first a contact must be made then it runs again. everything is normal at the first ball

Pinsound+, and i use SanDisk ultra fit USB 3.1 flash drive.

I held the phone in one hand

My friend installed it and has same experience eg only sound in shooter lane with first ball

For those of you having an issue with this specific sound package and your PinSound+, I've fixed it in the latest firmware available here:
https://www.pinsound.org/help/pinsound-plus-help/

Thanks!

Again a new firmware for Pinsound available which hopefully should fix the nosound when in shooterlane issue. Pinsound has good hopes on it.

As soon as my friend has time to install it I will give feedback.

Wow. Great minds think alike. He beat me with 20 seconds

Thanks Rens

Friend installed it and tested it to be OK now

So this issue with pinsound+ is solved, case closed.

Thanks for the support.

Hello, i install the new pinsound firmware:
Works great now

Hmmmm, still not working for me. Wonder if I am doing something wrong? It installs, then says "checking sound updates," then when I restart, still no sound on shooter. When I look on the USB, the update file has disappeared. Is this normal?

Thanks!

Edit - Working great now! I was wondering why it wasn't working well for me before, I didn't know there were firmware issues on the Plus! Still no sound on the launch, but I'm not sure any were progammed in by TheWool. His sample videos make no sound during initial launch.

Can tell you from personal experience that the Wool mix with latest Pinsound firmware on a Pinsound plus has sound when the ball is still in shooterlane. This for first and more balls.

I have exactly the same problem.

My friends has same problem to. You should be able to adjust this with Pinsound studio. If it is really all FX sounds this shouldn’t be to much of an issue as there is a control know in Pinsound studio with which you can adjust all sounds in a single knobturn.

Did contact already a person on a German forum who has done this but no reply yet.

On a to-do list.