For those who would like to use the K8055 as an light organ (by example) there is now a driver available for the program ‘Lightning’.
This program is freeware and can be used in many ways.
For input you can choose audio, beat, buttons, DMX, joystick and so on.
The input can be processed with functions like AND, OR, AnalogDigital, split and many, many more.
For output I used the parallel port, but many more connections are possible.
Since many laptops don’t have this port anymore I asked the writer if he could make a driver for the K8055 and he did.
Here you see a screenshot of the program using the K8055.
At this moment you can only use the digital and analog output. It seems to be rather difficult to implement input for K8055.
However my students like it very much and use it for their parallel interface they make at school.
Download out vellemank8055.ddl V2 from the same page
Unzip both files.
Copy the file out_velleman8055.dll in the folder module to the folder module of the Lightning program.
You don’t have to install the software, just start the program lightning.exe!
Accept the use of beat detection the smallport driver is not needed for the Velleman.
Click File / Open / trigger example.lit
When you are playing music there should flash all kind of things on your screen. If not click the tree points of Audio (left top) and select your sound input or / and adjust Preboost.
At the bottom of the screen delete the box parallelport or with the tekst please install Smallport driver, by right clicking at the top of this module.
Add the Velleman card by selecting in the menu
Output / Hardware / Velleman8055D
Place this module at the same place where you removed the parallel module.
Draw the lines from the Double module to the first 8 of the Velleman module. (The numbers 9 and 10 are analog out)
Select the Velleman card numer (0-3 by clicking the three points of the Velleman module. You can see the ones that are available.
That shoud do the trick.
Hilbrand
Ps.
This works also on Windows 8 32 bit. (64 bit gave me some problems)
This is what I’ve tried to reproduce your problem.
Tested it on 4 different computers.
HP omnibook 2180ed (W8 32 bit)
Acer tablet W500 (W8 32 bit)
Compac Presario laptop (W7 32 bit)
Some old computer with AMD processor (Windows XP)
There was no problem on any of these computers. I’ve tried different k8055D.dll versions (3, 4 and 5). Even when the dll was not in the system32 directory it worked fine with the dll in the lightning directory.
When the dll isn’t in the lightning directory it automatically finds the dll in the system32 directory.
If lightning can’t find the dll it shows a message in the module when you place it in lightning.
So my problem is I can’t find out yours.
What else you can try…
Try it on another computer.
Change compatibility modus.
Run as administrator.
Tell me what Windows version you use.
Is there some kind of message when you select…
and place the Velleman card on the screen?
the Velleman card address? (usually ‘0 open’ when 1 card is connected)
When you say It doesn’t turn on led’s, is that with the MultiButton directly connected to the Velleman? If not try the MultiButton as described before.
If the MultiButton works fine, then maybe you have to adjust the audio settings. (Level and record device)
I remember that on a Dell computer I had to connect the line out with the line in (or microphone in) to get the sound to Lightning. It was a problem with the sound card driver that I couldn’t fix. So I used a split cable. From line out to line in on the computer and to an external amplifier.
