coolsoft wrote:
Of course, all the mixers share the same resources.
Looking for a fix I've found this Microsoft forum thread where another developer has the same issue:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/c927ac49-45b7-452c-b740-f...
Sadly nobody at MS helped him; the only althernative given was to switch to owner-drawn menus, which is a huge lot of work for such a simple task as showing an icon on a menu...
I've actualy slightly changed the icons, please check them out in beta 3.
Nice job, most of the icon corruption it's gone:
I doesn't happen anymore on "Load mixer state..." Icon, "Save mixer state..." Icon and the "Reset (R)" Icon (this one was specially bad)
But it still happens on the "Copy state from" (I guess this is the most noticeable corruption) icon and on the "Open Windows audio mixer..." icon (very slight corruption) and on the newly added icon on "About VirtualMIDISynth..." (very slight corruption), all the other new icons don't seem to have any corruption
I like the remade icons, they look much better than the old ones and that the mixer window have a different icon
If the key to stop the corruption is to change the icons then I suggest a change to the "Copy state from", If I had to think of a icon desing for copying I would go for something well known like this:
If you want to get creative, instead of being 2 documents it would be 2 mixers, something like this icon I just made:
And about the mixer, it feels much more lively with the channel leds working properly in all the midis, back to when it didn't work properly I think I noticed something was wrong while playing with the solo function because when trying to solo a channel it was a nightmare to know which channel I wanted to solo because all channels except for 1 kept the led on
but now with all of them working + knowing the name of the instruments you don't even need to mute/solo channels to know which one you are looking for, I love it
As for the peak indicator it looks like it's working pretty well, so well it's saying most of my midis are too loud at max volume thanks to the soundfonts with too much boosted volume :p
Talking about soundfonts settings, there's a thing that bothers me about saving/loading soundfont configuration files, they save the % of volume but when loading it all the percentages are at default volume (at 100%), this gotta be a bug
But the bug only happens if you just installed VMS and said yes to erase settings then no matter how many times you try to load the file or close and open VMS, it will always load all sounfonts with 100% volume
Another small thing that bothered me when it changed but I've gotten used to, a while ago in some version the soundfont load order changed,
the text says it loads from top to bottom and that the latest it's the first it loads, but it actually loads from bottom to top and the latest is still the first it loads
Now I've gotten used to the second way so I don't mind if you don't change anything (well, except for a correction for the text, for people that don't know this), but if you want to you could add a way to change between the 2 load order (either from top to bottom or from bottom to top) maybe with a check box close to the text that explains the soundfont order
And for last, a interesting bug with hitboxes that have been in there/I've known since the introduction of VMS 2.0, it's not very important nor annoying but I will show you anyways (I think this is the last bug I currently know), you decide if you want to fix it:
If the window of the configuration it's not big enough to completely see the last sounfont and you try to activate the led of the last soundfont you can (not completely) see of the list of soundfonts, it will activate the sounfont under instead:
imo the way this bug is most annoying is when the window is small
Here's a demostration: