From: Kona A. <ke...@as...> - 2005-01-26 11:13:46
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Hi William, > I had a similar problem with the sounds of notes suddenly becoming permanently > much softer -- unresettably so at least until playback was stopped -- > after using various MIDI control events. It turned out to be a bug in the > ALSA driver. I have a fix for it. Sending the test .rg file off-list to you. I've been wondering if it's an ALSA problem, because I'm seeing it both with my onboard soundchip and with my soundcard, and both when using rosegarden and playing back a (rosegarden-created) midi file with pmidi. Another symptom I just discovered is that when I play back (using rosegarden) through one of my soundcard ports that *isn't* initialised with any bank data (and I can't thereby choose an instrument), the first part plays back with the (default) piano sound, but the part after the program change events plays back with the same reedy string sounds I'm hearing with the properly-configured port. I don't know *where* these samples are coming from - somewhere in ALSA? I'm running a fully-patched Slackware 9.1 system, the latest version of rosegarden and the following alsa packages: alsa-driver-1.0.5a-i486-2.tgz alsa-lib-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz alsa-oss-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz alsa-utils-1.0.5-i486-1.tgz (although I was having the same problem with the following alsa packages: alsa-driver-0.9.8-i486-3.tgz alsa-lib-0.9.8-i486-1.tgz alsa-utils-0.9.8-i486-1.tgz ) Many thanks, Kona. -- Kona Andrews :: AstroGrid Project Institute of Astronomy :: Madingley Road :: Cambridge CB3 0HA Ph. +44 (0)774 765 1877 :: Fax +44 (0)1223 337 523 |