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TheJames
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005

Posted: Sun Apr 17 2005 00:41 A small problem concerning looped samples
This is not so much a problem as a slight annoyance, but I'd like to know what causes it if only for curiosity's sake. I first installed MadTracker on someone else's computer, and was impressed enough to install it on my own once I got home. What's puzzling me is that although my computer is superior in every relevant respect, I believe (better CPU, more RAM, non-motherboard soundcard), it appears to perform in one respect in a slightly inferior manner to the other computer I tried it on. On the other computer, when I had a looped sample playing, I could drag the loop boundary thingies (you know, the start and end markers) around and the sound would react instantaneously, making it much easier to find a particular sound, and more importantly allowing me to muck around for minutes on end just making a load of meaningless noise. My theoretically superior computer, however, does not do this. When I drag the loop boundary thingies around, the sample cuts out temporarily and doesn't come back in until I've released the boundary and the sample's called again. I've had a look through the MadTracker settings, but nothing instantly struck me as a likely solution. The only thing I can think of is that I might have had a different version on the other computer. What I currently have is the beta thing (2.5.0 RC2 with the fix), whereas at some point or other on the other computer I believe I've had both 2.5.0 and 2.3.2, and it seemed that somehow the two installations encroached on each other a little (the colour schemes got all confused, for example). The whole situation got a little confused, and to be honest I'm not entirely sure what was going on by the end of it. I know it's a very cosmetic niggle, but I'm intrigued as to why it even happens, and it would be quite nice if I could sort it out. Anyway, that's a very protracted and vague description of my conundrum, but hopefully someone will be gracious and patient enough to have a go at working out what's going on. Thanks!

Walter Vos
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Joined: 04 May 2003
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands

Posted: Sun Apr 17 2005 04:04
you use nice words. like conundrum and stuff anywayzzzz, i don't think i have an answer to your problem.
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Yannick
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Joined: 16 Apr 2003
Location: Belgium

Posted: Sun Apr 17 2005 09:54
The sample is stopped when you move the loop points in the latest version only (RC5 fix2). This is to prevent a bug which is due to loop-point moving while a sample is playing. I'll try to find a more elegant solution though. Yannick

TheJames
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Joined: 17 Apr 2005

Posted: Sun Apr 17 2005 13:14
Ah. So that's how it's meant to be, then. Well at least it's not something up with my PC. Thanks! And good luck with the more elegant solution.

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