[directmusic] Re: Allright, now I'm REALLY stumped

  • From: "Scott Morgan" <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:19:40 -0600

DownloadSoundData has never worked for me in DMP.  I always get an error
message, even if I unload everything.  It works fine in DMDemo though.

This is one of the Downloading bugs I was complaining about in an email a
month or so ago.

-Scott Morgan
http://Morganstudios.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "James Dooley" <jdooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 2:50 PM
Subject: [directmusic] Re: Allright, now I'm REALLY stumped


>
> There's a little bit of fudge factor, where it may work if your total
> number of PChannels is less than an even multiple of 16.  If you defined
> PChannels 1-4 and 101-104, you'll find that you can successfully
> download to PChannels 1-16, but 17 and higher won't work.
>
> FYI, it works fine in DirectMusic Producer because it manually downloads
> all opened DLS collections to all ports in the default audiopath.  It
> fails in Scott's DMDemo application, because he lets the DirectMusic
> performance engine do the downloading.  You can do this manually in
> DirectMusic Producer by setting the "Download Status" in the
> "MIDI/Performance Options" to "Unload" for all DLS sets, then calling
> Segment.DownloadSoundData in a script to download the segment.
>
> -james
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Morgan [mailto:scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:19 AM
> To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [directmusic] Re: Allright, now I'm REALLY stumped
>
>
>
> James the rule isn't absolute though.  I did it with out P-channel 95
> and it worked.  Isn't that weird!?
>
>
> -Scott Morgan
> http://Morganstudios.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Dooley" <jdooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:46 PM
> Subject: [directmusic] Re: Allright, now I'm REALLY stumped
>
>
> >
> > This is a bug in DirectMusic.  You do need to add all the intermediate
>
> > PChannels to the audiopath to make it work.  Basically, downloading=20
> > instruments to a performance with a default audiopath that has "holes"
>
> > in its PChannel assignments may not work correctly (it depends on the=20
> > size of the "holes" and the total number of PChannels assigned in the=20
> > audiopath).  You need to fill in all the "holes" to make the downloads
>
> > always work right (this includes holes that start at PChannel 1).  The
>
> > reason it worked for me was because I added the instrument to the band
>
> > at PChannel 13 (which wasn't used in the main segment).  If I had=20
> > added it to PChannel 33 or higher, it would not have worked.
> >
> > -james
> >
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no=20
> > rights.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Saul Bottcher [mailto:saul.bottcher@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=3D20
> > Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 6:40 AM
> > To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [directmusic] Re: Allright, now I'm REALLY stumped
> >
> >
> >
> > > When I loaded
> > > Bjorn's project into DirectMusic Producer, I got a bunch of=20
> > > errors=3D20 about not being able to find the "DLS calmwave" DLS=20
> > > Collection.
> >
> >     Same here (I looked for "calmwave" but it didn't seem to be part=20
> > of the project)... if it brings up a dialog in Producer, could it not=20
> > cause problems elsewhere?
> >
> >     Also, the solution of adding PChannels seems strange if adding=20
> > 14-94 worked (i.e. when there was still a gap at 95).  Could there be=20
> > something more to this?  Perhaps adding the PChannels causes some=20
> > side-effect elsewhere, and its the side-effect that's actually solving
>
> > the problem, not the PChannel addition directly?
> >
> >     Saul.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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