VirtualMIDISynth 2.x - Release Candidate 2 released

coolsoft wrote:

Can you confirm alpha versions worked good?

Yes it worked good.

coolsoft wrote:

Could you also try with FluidR3_GM.sf2 soundfont (you can find its download link in VMS1 webpage)?

Tried it...same result.

coolsoft wrote:

Have you uninstalled alpha* before running the beta1 setup?

Yes, several times.   Also, being asked twice for a language did not re-occur. 

coolsoft wrote:

Do you, by any chance, upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista?

Yes, I upgraded.

coolsoft wrote:

Could you please right-click on VirtualMIDISynth.exe --> Properties --> Compatibility and double check that no compatibility mode is set?

Confirmed, no compatibility mode is set (BTW: Good suggestion).

Your bug report let me discover two subtle bugs, lying around for sometime.

coolsoft wrote:

During install it asked me what language to use twice.

This was a bug in all previous Uninstallation procedures (starting from VirtualMIDISynth 1.x). Uninstall sould not ask for language, it should default to the one selected during the installation.
Again, to make it worst, Install language was asked after the previous version Uninstall started...
Now fixed, but sadly we won't see its effect soon because I can't change the behavior of already existing uninstallers.

Steve Wellens wrote:

It doesn't seem to work with Record Producer (my preferred Midi composing program).

I downloaded the trial version of Record Producer and tested it on my side.
Last version working is Alpha23, while from Alpha24 the bug appears.
After a debug session I found a subtle bug that lead to such a big effect on Record Producer and also made an Alpha24 feature (Optimized MIDI queue; NoteOFF messages now are not dropped in case of a queue-full situation. This should reduce stale notes with Black MIDIs) completely useless.

Will release Beta2 soon, thanks again for your bug report!

Steve Wellens wrote:

coolsoft wrote:

coolsoft wrote:
Do you, by any chance, upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista?

Yes, I upgraded.

No more ideas, sorry.
Well, it's only a "cosmetic" issue, let's go over it ;)

Confirmed:  Record Producer now works with Beta2!   Thank you so much.

If you still have Record Producer installed, there is still another problem.  Sometimes, I would loop a track and then change the patch on the fly to see how different instruments sound.  For a long time, this hasn't worked...it seems to grab instruments at random.  I've been manually changing the patch number as a work around.

Here's the dialog box where it's done (right click on the Pch column):

hakan.ates wrote:

I got back from system image and got a lot of lost data. For your information.

I'm really sorry to hear it. I used system restore only once in my life and (I hope) I'll never use it again: it restored not only the system but also my data, but my old data (damn!).

Anyway, it seems that the driver component was not removed (will investigate why) and those errors are shown when some system process tries to load it.
If your system restore was not successful and you still have the problem, as a temporary fix, just manually delete file VirtualMIDISynth.dll in both folders C:\Windows\System32 and C:\Windows\SysWOW64.
If files are in use and can't be deleted, try to start your system in Safe mode.

Sorry again for it.

The Beta2 works really good!

I have a question.
Whenever I set the voice limit to a value higher than 2000, it still limits them to 2000.

You did that on purpose, right? o: