First post, by GL1zdA
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- Oldbie
Either I'm doing something wrong or I'm just ignorant, but I constantly have issues with consistent MIDI playback. By consistent, I mean sounding the same every time.
My devices will often end up in an odd state, when they start to totally miss some instruments. I begin to see patterns, like playing back songs in a specific sequence will repeatably cause such errors in subsequent playbacks. Stopping a song in the middle and playing back another one will sometimes cause similar errors. An extreme example is Descent's setup test music, where subsequent playbacks will miss one voice.
These errors happen regardless of the MIDI device. The only solution for this problem I've found is sending a GM or GS reset before I play back another song. This is okay for MIDI players, though not all of them support this. I even started sending a GM reset before I start games, but once started, I can never be sure, whether what I hear is what I was intended to hear.
Is this how it supposed to be? Is there a better solution then sending a GM reset before every song?
