2010-08-26 09:04, Bernd Casper skrev: > Hi David, Gents, > > many thanks for the latest changes. It seems to be a great improvement in > sound quality, whatever the reason may be. Much more details, amazing > transparency, less gain level distortion. > > Overflow settings. > On my (relatively powerful) system I cannot realize big overall changes, if I > do alter the weighting. Though, one detail seems very important to me: > To me it seems, under certain circumstances, FS overflow handling is allowed > to cut off voices inside a single multi-sample soundfont instrument > ("Instrument" level). > To me it was always one of the biggest advantages of FS, to allow as many > samples in an instrument I wish, without any clipping. All my soundfonts > building bases on that fact. > So from my point of view, it should be absolutely avoided, to cut off samples > inside of an instrument which is already sounding.
>From another point of view - there are often presets made of samples where on sample is the "main" one and the other is a small, almost unhearable "effect". In that case, cutting off the "effect" sample would be the right thing to do. Anyway, as a future improvement, we could consider a switch changing the behavior: so that when FS runs out of polyphony, it adds the score of all voices belonging to the same note together, then kills all voices belonging to the note-on with the lowest score, instead of killing individual voices. > I tried to ensure this by setting age to 9999 and volume to -9999, but I > noticed no change in handling. I would probably set the synth.overflow.volume to 0 in that case - setting it to -9999 would cause *louder* notes to be clipped first and more silent notes to remain active. > Release tickles. > Please listen to my sound example. You'll realize some notes having a little > tickle in the release (1st & 5th note in the 1st group, none in the second > group, 3rd & 5th note in the third group, and the very final note). This > effect is always present currently, while playing - by chance, it seems. It's > always a little delayed, about 0.25 seconds - like releases cutted off. > http://bca.free-artists.net/data/tempdl/bca_FS112alpha_clipping_demo.ogg I'm sorry, but I can't hear anything. Could be a difference in our listening environments, or that the ogg compression removes the "tickles". But without hearing them and without a sound font, it is very difficult for me to do anything about it. // David _______________________________________________ fluid-dev mailing list fluid-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fluid-dev