[squeak-dev] Mac midi sound weirdness - it gets louder for first few notes.

tim Rowledge tim at rowledge.org
Fri Nov 7 17:46:41 UTC 2014


On 07-11-2014, at 2:57 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> wrote:

> On 07.11.2014, at 02:38, Levente Uzonyi <leves at elte.hu> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, tim Rowledge wrote:
>> 
>>> I recorded your sample playing on my iMac - which Bridget agrees clearly gets louder, so it’s not just my tool-mangled ears - and put it here -
>>> https://copy.com/TntqoL6EBUQkYNth
>> 
>> That sound clearly gets louder over time. I suspect that your OS or sound card has a built-in compressor or limiter, which affects the output volume. Try increasing the volume of the midi playback and see if the effect goes away.

It’s an iMac. It doesn’t have strange sound cards with arcane settings you fiddle with. It just plays things.

> 
> It's weird, yes, but clearly not a Squeak problem but with your system.
> 
> How did you record this?
Quicktime to record the audio coming out of the speakers, so you heard what I heard.


tim
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