Bug with 4.0.5 build 1840: midi mute

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muting a midi track doesn’t work

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Hey,

Anyone find this problem in build 1840? The mute button simply doesn’t work for any midi tracks?

rod

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It works for me. I tried it on a couple midi files to be sure.

KingFish

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rod,

It seems to be working for me in build 1840, as well. Do you happen to have Solo enabled for the tracks? Mute doesn’t work for tracks being soloed. Just a thought. Also, are these VSTi tracks?

Tony

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the tracks aren’t soloed, but there are vsti, feeding into Battery 2. Never saw this kind of behaviour before 4.0.5. When I have a moment, I’ll do a re-install and test it again.

rod

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Hey Rod–

I was testing on XP Pro earlier with just an SB Audigy Synth and Crystal VSTi track. HOWEVER, I tried three VSTi tracks under Win2K tonight and noticed 2 out of 3 didn’t mute correctly. Loopazoid muted OK, while Elogoxa’s “The Devil Inside” and Green Oak’s Crystal did not.

So it kinda looks like it’s possibly an OS/VSTi dependent thing, but I’d have to look at it more to be sure… ???

[edit: my external synth seems ok, too.]

Tony

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Well, one more observation: I can mute the VSTi tracks if I go to the Main Mixer and mute the Synth strip for the VSTi.

Tony

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I loaded up a few VSTi and DXi synths and found that some mute and some do not. My Audigy soundfonts mute and this is what I tried initially.

You are correct Rod.

KingFish

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More testing: build 1840 on XP again, mute still shows the same buggy behavior with the same VSTi plugins I tried under Win2K. Put 4.04 build 1811 in, and the problems went away. Is it bug report time yet? :D

[EDIT: Seems the MrRay 73 plug doesn’t mute with 1811, so 1811 is not a fix-all.]

Tony

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Try unchecking the “Mute = vol 0” option in the Preferences/MIDI dialog box. The default behavior has changed from v4.0.4 to v4.0.5.
I’ll add a third mute mode in the next version in which the streaming of midi notes is halted and the channel volume is also set to 0 (currently only one of these actions is performed depending on the state of the “Mute = vol 0” option).

Flavio.

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Hi Flavio,

Thanks–this works (tried it under XP)!!! I thought to try this under Win2K last night, and if I recall correctly (it was late), the setting wouldn’t change, but I will say no more until I go back and verify it.

Thanks again,

Tony

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Quote (Scantee @ May 04 2005,08:35)
Hi Flavio,

Thanks--this works (tried it under XP)!!! I thought to try this under Win2K last night, and if I recall correctly (it was late), the setting wouldn't change, but I will say no more until I go back and verify it.

Update: I tried it in Win2K, and I was wrong about the setting not changing (that was 4.04, not 4.05) and the mute *does* work. But for some VSTi plugs (e.g. Green Oak's Crystal) the mute only works after you stop and restart playback. I imagine the new mute option could make a difference there. Thanks again for the tip, Flavio!

Tony