I am looking to do pre-processing of visualization data on songs that are not currently playing. It seems with MediaPlayer, you can only access the current sample of visualization data for the currently playing song. Are there other libraries that allow for generating a data structure of visualization data vs time of a song that has not ...

That would work, but would result in additional draw calls, and not keep the integrity of the backbuffer. As this game is intended for the 360, I intend to keep the settings regarding when rendertargets are cleared on default. Therefore, if I switch off the main back buffer, it will be cleared, so I would have to preserve it and then ...

Thanks for your help. I have tried using SetData<> to zero out the texture, but there was no change. If my understanding is correct, when a rendertarget is resolved to a texture, the current content of that texture is ignored and just overwritten, so zero'ing the data will have no effect on the texture after the target is ...

In order to achieve a desired effect in my Particle system, it is necessary for me to draw to two seperate render targets, one of which is the main backbuffer. In trying to stay optimal, I am hoping to keep this to one single draw call. Therefore, I would like to avoid the normal route of resolving the back buffer, doing all my work, and then ...