BUG: Periodic Loss of Sound During Playback
| Article ID: | 000044 |
| Category: | MIDI Setup and Playback |
| Applies to: | Power Tab Editor (1.7 and earlier) |
| Created: | 23-Nov-2002 |
| Last updated: | 11-Feb-2005 |
| Bug status: | Open |
| Bug severity: | Low |
| Revision number: | 10 |
| Author(s): | Brad Larsen |
Symptoms
About once every 30 to 50 times you play a score, no sound comes out.
Cause
Power Tab Editor uses Microsoft's MIDI streams to manage MIDI data during playback. These streams are not the best documented/used feature available for MIDI management and they have received a bad wrap because of it. I originally assumed this error was an annoyance that came with using the streams.
I recently came across a site that had some excellent information on their usage, and found out that the ordering of my playback code was off a bit. This bad ordering of code may cause the MIDI streams to start playing before the MIDI data is available to be played, causing no sound to be heard.
Resolution
Stopping and restarting usually fixes the problem.
