jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille) (06/25/91)
Recently there was a post about the availability of some new scorefiles. (Partita.score, Vivaldi.score, Allegro.score, ...) I seem to have a problem with some of these, and I hope someone can shed some light on it. The problem is that the score file will read in fine, begin to play, and play correctly for a few measures. Then the sound will get all choppy, with periods of silence interspersed with bursts of the music. I seem to get about two bursts of music per second (2 Hz? ;). Does anyone know if this is: 1) A problem with the NS 1.0a music kit? I haven't upgraded yet. 2) A result of not enough cpu power to keep up with the demands of the scorefiles? I only have an 030 cube with OD + swapdisk. 3) A problem with my DSP? Probably not. Other scorefiles seem to play fine, including some in the "new" set. 'Partita.score' plays just fine. 4) A result of too little disk bandwidth? I don't think this is the case, since the Scoreplayer app seems to read the score into memory-resident structures before beginning to play it. These are some of the possibilities which have come to mind. Any light you can shed on this would be appreciated. Please email, and I'll summarize. Jon -- Jon Cargille jcargill@cs.wisc.edu <-- Now receiving NeXTmail