Re: [Linuxsampler-devel] LS Testing - low volumes

[Mark K. <mar...@co...>]

On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:22, Christian Schoenebeck wrote:
> Es geschah am Sonntag, 21. Dezember 2003 23:04 als Mark Knecht schrieb:
> >    I hadn't tested LS seriously since MIDI velocity support was added,
> > so I'm starting with that. The good news is that it works. The semi-bad
> > news is that overall volumes are much, much lower. A peak of -6db in GSt
> > will come out about -18db in LS.
> 
> I guess you're speaking about the overall volume of LS, right? If yes, I will 
> add a command line switch for the global volume in LS with my next commit. 
> You're absolutely right, that the volume is a bit low on many machines, we 
> just set it that low, to avoid distortions with some sound cards. With the 
> command line option you will be able to raise the overall level and when Rui 
> finished our initial GUI you will be able to set such things by just doing 
> some clicks.
> 
> CU
> Christian
> 

Christian,
   I think it makes lots of sense right now to keep the volume low. I
you had been planning on adding a command line switch for volume, that's
fine, but I'm not asking for it. Things are fine the way they are. I was
just reporting data, not asking for changes.

   By way of comparison, I spent a lot of time Sunday afternoon playing
with levels in GSt and dealing with some distortions there. I ended up
finding that the level differences between LS and GSt weren't that
different if I wanted GSt to not distort on high polyphony counts, so
maybe things aren't that far off of a good setting right now.

   Far more preferred would be the MIDI hookup command line switch.
That's still a pain as I change gig files... ;-)

Cheers,
Mark