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Does it happen if you use the Coyote WT DXi synth, instead of the Microsoft GS Wavetable?


Andrew and Mac
I had another go with Coyote WT DXi and although it doesn't eliminate the problem completely, it now happens very infrequently. I gave up on soft synths because I could never completely cure the latency problem. I like the song to start in total sync with my keyboard as I play the first key and I could never get this zero latency at the start of a song. With an external synth this is never a problem. I now have over 500 songs arranged for the patches in my SD-50 so Coyote WT DXi is not an option for me. In any case it would be nice to use BIAB without this problem for both hard and soft synths.

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Could it be that the sound card is retaining a little bit of sound.
Perhaps the sound card is not being flushed out properly


George
That's a interesting idea so I did tests starting a song after letting it end naturally compared with stopping it in the middle. Unfortunately it made no difference to my problem.

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Open "Prefs" and open "OutputCh". At the top of the box you see "Output Chords?" I bet it is checked... uncheck it.



Brad
Thanks for the suggestion but I have always had the box unticked

Has anyone at PG done a test to observe the problem? The easiest way is to
1)Load the demo song with Dixiland.sty
2)Use an external synth or Microsoft GS Wavetable.
3) Select "pause until midi received" in the prefs'
4) Mouse around the song double clicking on bars and pressing the space bar to start and stop the song.
You should find that around 10-20% of the time you double click a single note sounds but the song doesn't start until you press space bar. Some of the time the note may actually stick on, sounding continuously.

Many thanks for all the replies, I really appreciate them.

Tony