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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0001249 | OpenMPT | Feature Request | public | 2019-08-12 11:44 | 2019-08-12 17:58 |
Reporter | Fred57 | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
Status | closed | Resolution | no change required | ||
Platform | x86 | OS | Windows | OS Version | XP |
Product Version | OpenMPT 1.28.06.00 / libopenmpt 0.4.6 (upgrade first) | ||||
Summary | 0001249: midi keyboard source / OPL instrument and 16 bits samples react differently with velocity of a MIDI keyboard | ||||
Description | Hi, I am playing samples of the demo sound Pigu - Nightfall (left menu - samples) for this test but I saw the same problem with others modules too When I am playing 16 bits samples "80s clap (external)" for example the sound is great (80% of the volume level for a normal play on the keyboard compare to the Q key of my keyboard for computer which seems to be at 127) Not really a bug, but a real problem for musicians, so I put that in private and not in public mode... So is this the consequence of the bad quality of the samples for OPL instruments which are not done at 0db or should you add an "input level knob" to allows people using a keyboard to be able to play on this kind of samples ? An other thing : pitch bend from my keyboard and controller has got no effect on the sample ! so all the Midi messages are not transmitted to the software. (i will test with a roland product cause yamaha products and midi messages are allways a mystery for all people having this product...) Best Regards, PS : for the problem with 2nd time play of a song with no volume (fade out in module) with loop song activated, only put a request to 'PlayFromStart' function (if the name is like that) at the end of the song, this will work for all kind of song (mod, etc...) . I am a computer scientist too... not only a musician, if I can help, I will do my best cause I think this software is very great ! :) | ||||
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Has the bug occurred in previous versions? | |||||
Tested code revision (in case you know it) | |||||
Yes, OPL instruments have a different velocity curve (logarithmic rather than linear) than samples. This is how the OPL chip works, and due to the limited volume range it doesn't make sense to try to adjust for this (most importantly, Scream Tracker 3 doesn't do that so we would be breaking compatibility if we did that). This is documented in the manual: https://wiki.openmpt.org/Manual:_Samples#Volume This could happen with any type of synthesized instrument too, e.g. if you use a VST instrument, it may or may also not behave the same way as samples if it uses a different velocity curve.
As said this is something that needs to be fixed in the module, not in the tracker. Composers need to take care that they reset the module state to its default if they want the module to be repeatable. There is no command to automatically do that for them, and adding one isn't going to solve any problem because the trackers OpenMPT emulates didn't have such a command, and we won't add even more incompatible hacks to those formats that are not going to be supported by any other players. |
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Please don't do that. Private issues are only meant for security-critical bugs. If you make an issue public, noone can see the issue, and in particular this means that other users or contributors cannot weigh in on the issue, or even provide a fix beyond what us developers can do. |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2019-08-12 11:44 | Fred57 | New Issue | |
2019-08-12 17:56 | Saga Musix | Note Added: 0004002 | |
2019-08-12 17:56 | Saga Musix | Priority | high => normal |
2019-08-12 17:56 | Saga Musix | Severity | major => minor |
2019-08-12 17:56 | Saga Musix | Status | new => closed |
2019-08-12 17:56 | Saga Musix | Resolution | open => no change required |
2019-08-12 17:58 | Saga Musix | Note Added: 0004003 | |
2019-08-12 17:58 | Saga Musix | View Status | private => public |