FlexibeatzII Portable Application Description File
'PAD' files are datasets which allow software authors to communicate specific and most often requested information about their products to online communities in a concise and standard way. This PAD file is in XML format (data can be extracted and parsed using standard XML toolkits):

flexibeatziipad.xml | |
File Size: | 8 kb |
File Type: | xml |
FlexibeatzII Installer
Download this Installer to a temporary directory and double-click it. It will ask you to specify a path for installation, following which it will register a few components, extract the FlexibeatzII.exe ver 1.0.0.0 file and a Help/Tutorial PDF into the path you've specified, create a 'data' subdirectory with a handful of .wav sound files, create some shortcuts then launch FlexibeatzII. The whole process should take only a few seconds. It is highly recommended that once the application is installed and running on your system, you replace the FlexibeatzII.exe file with the latest version found on the 'Update It' page.

flexibeatziiinstaller.exe | |
File Size: | 4363 kb |
File Type: | exe |
If you're the type who likes to learn everything about a product to establish whether it is right for you before you acquire it, here is the Help/Tutorial PDF on its own (it gets installed by the FlexibeatzII Installer also):

flexibeatzii_help.pdf | |
File Size: | 2522 kb |
File Type: |
Before Installing PLEASE READ this: System Requirements
Minimum Hardware: Intel Pentium 2, 500MHz. 512MB RAM
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP. With the supplied FlexibeatzII installer, I have successfully installed (and am still running) the application on both these platforms.
I have not personally tested FlexibeatzII on Windows Vista or Windows 7 to date. However, I have received reports the application 'works like a charm' on Vista 32 bit Ultimate (you may need to disable UAC, install the application, then re-enable UAC). Please let me know the results on other Operating Systems (you'll effectively be ‘Beta Testing’ the application on them, so ensure you can withstand any potential disruption to your system). My contact is on the 'Use It' page.
Note: if you get an error similar to "Component MSCOMCTL.OCX or one of its dependencies not currently registered" simply Google the component name, which should return pages on how to download and register the component.
Other Required Components:
Operating System: Windows 2000, XP. With the supplied FlexibeatzII installer, I have successfully installed (and am still running) the application on both these platforms.
I have not personally tested FlexibeatzII on Windows Vista or Windows 7 to date. However, I have received reports the application 'works like a charm' on Vista 32 bit Ultimate (you may need to disable UAC, install the application, then re-enable UAC). Please let me know the results on other Operating Systems (you'll effectively be ‘Beta Testing’ the application on them, so ensure you can withstand any potential disruption to your system). My contact is on the 'Use It' page.
Note: if you get an error similar to "Component MSCOMCTL.OCX or one of its dependencies not currently registered" simply Google the component name, which should return pages on how to download and register the component.
Other Required Components:
VB6 Runtime | FlexibeatzII is written in Visual Basic 6, so requires the VB6 runtime library to be installed on your system. If you successfully run other VB6 applications on your system, then your system already has this library installed (as most systems do). Otherwise, you might get 'A required .DLL file was not found', 'Runtime error' or 'Error: the file msvbvm60.dll could not be found' message when you try to run FlexiBeatzII. If you do get such an error, simply search the Merrie Internette for VBRun60.exe - it's a self-extracting executable that installs all files required by VB6 applications |
dx8vb.dll | FlexibeatzII makes use of DirectSound, a Microsoft API which provides a direct interface between audio applications and the soundcard drivers on Windows XP and earlier Operating Systems. FlexibeatzII has been built to utilize Directsound Version 8 for passing audio data to the soundcard, mixing sounds, recording etc. The requisite DLL is already part of Windows XP, but for Windows 2000 (the only other OS I run FlexibeatzII on), dx8vb.dll gets registered on the system when you install FlexibeatzII (if it isn’t already registered by other applications you’re using which need it). This DX version can co-exist with any earlier DX versions (such as DX7) already part of Windows 2000. Besides the use of DirectSound for the purposes mentioned, all FlexibeatzII features have been programmed from scratch, including the DSP algorithms for the synthesis, effects, EQ etc. No use was made of the preset effects which come with DirectSound, and no use was made of any other sound libraries |