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MIDI Timer Crashes Host

Archive · 2008 4 old posts

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MaxJoy ·

Oddson's MIDI timer crashes the host if you try to remove the plugin while the timer is still running. In my demo the timer starts and stops synchronously with the transport, this means you can savely remove the plugin when transport is stopped. Otherwise you'll get a hard crash, so be warned 😉. I've noticed the problem in Ableton Live and Synapse Orion so far.

Btw: When does the promised official timer solution come? All these realtime timers are worthless in a sampleclock based world ...

oddson ·

I wonder if that's my bug, SynthMaker's or the hosts'?

I'll have a look at it but if a host crashes it's at least partially a bug in the host in that they are not handling an error properly.

I'll see if there's anything I can do to fix the behaviour by altering the module.

Has anyone confirmed the stock timer still does not work with MIDI lately... I haven't tested it for several releases.

MaxJoy ·

Your circuit looks and works fine, I bet it's sm internal.

MaxJoy ·

oddson wrote: Has anyone confirmed the stock timer still does not work with MIDI lately... I haven't tested it for several releases.

I did quite a lot of tests with these timers, they are obviously still based on the standard windows timers. This leads to problems when realtime != sampleclock (eg during wav export).

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