Re: [Lmuse-developer] Testing 20040509

[Robert J. <rob...@da...>]

On Sunday 09 May 2004 23.47, John Check wrote:
> On Sunday 09 May 2004 03:14 pm, Robert Jonsson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Some testing evidence I collected lately.
> >
> > - When trying to use my emu10k1 external synth (which possibly isn't
> > working correctly)
>
> Are you saying that because of the error? I have a SBLIve Platinum (rev.7)
> emu10k1. I use the wavetable almost exclusively.

No. I think I know most of the quirks of an sb-live, infact I think the card 
that is in this computer is the one I modded (waaaay back I tried to use it 
under windows with APS drivers... it did work). 

I think this card has suffered one to many current spikes, it was a long time 
ago I last got any sound out of the wavetable of this card.

>
> > The first time i pressed play (was play+rec) I got:
> > "tickValues(0x40eeb41c) not found(1)
> > Aborted"
> > ... I was wondering about this debug message.
> > I didn't look for it yet, could it be possible to print more debug info
> > at this point? It's not biting very often, but when it bites it is total
> > disaster. Possibly it will be easier to track down if more debug info is
> > printed...
> >
> > - Running with JACK -> DUMMY and Qsynth and amsynth.
> > bpm seems so slow, 280bpm is more like 120bpm
> > Stability is not 100%, sometimes it lags....
> > when play position reaches a loop point there is a noticeable delay
> > before playback starts from the beginning again...
>
> I see the loop lag too, but it's always been thus.

Ok, I didn't notice it when running normally. It is very noticable when 
running Jack->dummy.

>
> > - Audio restart does not work.
> >
> > - what about editing midi controllers, does it work? For Fluidsynth I see
> > a whole bunch but I can only seem to edit velocity. For other
> > softsynths(can't remember which I tried) I get only velocity and Program,
> > can't edit there either..
>
> Are the controllers in question implemented in the softsynths?  It
> shouldn't make a difference (MIDI stream wise), unless somehow MusE knows
> the capabilities.
>
> > - I have reported earlier about problems with Jack newer than 0.94... I
> > guess noone else has seen this? Lately I have been able to run with newer
> > Jack versions... but then it stopped working again...
>
> j4strngs@araka:~$ jackd --version
> jackd version 0.95.6
>
> What is the nature of the problem?

MIDI stops working, atleast the softsynths stop making sound. It works as long 
as I don't touch my midi keyboard, as soon as I try to use that the 
corresponding softsynth stops working.
Sometimes it starts to work again after a while, stops again as soon as I 
touch the keyboard... it is all very fishy.

>
> > As it happens it seems that just restarting Jack helped...?!? Not sure if
> > that helped previously also... very strange.
> >
> > All for now,
> > Robert
>
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