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- From: ptran@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca (Phat H Tran)
- Subject: Re: Pops (was Re: New Gravis software solves several problems)
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:50:13 GMT
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- In article <1i08usINNjee@agate.berkeley.edu> joak@ocf.berkeley.edu (Jonathan A. Kung) writes:
- >kludge@hardy.u.washington.edu (Kludge) writes:
- >>>captain@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Bran Muffin) writes:
- >> No, not a pop... just nothing. I tried hitting a key rapidly several
- >>times and got a BaBaBaBaBaaaaah. No pops. (Sorry for the pathetic ASCII
- >>sound effect there :)
- >
- >Hmm, I think Mr. Muffin (the original poster) meant clicking on
- >a key, holding the key down, and moving the mouse up and down the
- >keyboard, which, by the way, gives a wonderful whale-like effect
- >with the Gunshot patch on the lower range. "Whales, Mr. Spock?" :)
- >
- >How come it seems that the GUS can't handle more than a small bunch
- >of these sustained notes on one channel without dropping the older
- >ones ala FIFO?
- >
-
- It can, but the software likes to do things its own way. The Windows
- MIDI driver is only 12-voice polyphonic. Playmidi for DOS is 20-voice
- polyphonic. Neither is using the GUS's 32-voice polyphony capability.
-
- The pops have nothing to do with polyphony but how the Windows driver
- likes to cut-off notes in mid-sustain. Playmidi doesn't have this
- problem.
-
- Phat.
-