Error with FMOD getSpectrum()

I know this isn't truly "game" programming, but the board said sound library stuff goes here too, if It's int he wrong spot, a mod is more than welcome to move it.

Anywho, I was really used to FMOD 3.75, and I just got the newer version, 4.32.04, and I have to say, the FMOD team really messed up on this, in my opinion.

In the old version, I am used to activating DSP effects when I initialize FMOD, and this allowed me to access the getSpectrum() function quite easily, now all that happens is a crash.

Code:

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float *spectrum;
FmodSystem->getSpectrum(spectrum, 256, 0, FMOD_DSP_FFT_TRIANGLE);

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This gives me a segmentation fault. Googling around didn't help me much, mostly people saying they always get 0.0 on the spectrum.... wish I could get that far....

Anyway, I don't see a way to initialize FMOD with DSP active on it, and the help file isn't giving me anything that I can find. I have tried it with all the filters, both channels, channel->getSpectrum, everything I could think of.

Any ideas on why this is segfaulting?

Thanks in advance.

Without knowing anything about FMOD a couple of things in that line of code that could cause seg faults:

• FmodSystem has not been initialized nor zeroed in the constructor of your object. If it were null you would get a null pointer error. If it was not zeroed and you attempted to use it and it was not valid you could get a seg fault.
• You have a DLL problem. If FMOD is a DLL I would check to ensure the DLL is in the bin of your application. If it is not a DLL then ignore this.
• getSpectrum() may have some invalid parameters being passed to it. Invalid as in they meet the prototype but they are causing FMOD to do some strange things.
• Last and least likely: getSpectrum() has a bug in it which causes the seg fault.

I have played around with the parameters, always got the same result.

I fear it is the last option. I can play sound without a problem, pause it, resume it, you name it, I can do it, except for DSP effects and spectrums. I have not yet tried the effects.

Has anyone else had this problem? I am running kubuntu 10.04, using GCC/G++ through Code::Blocks... Could this be a compiler error?

Oh and, Thanks for responding, Bubba.