d0pefish wrote on 2020-11-01, 15:10:Hi, I'm the author of mt32-pi. […]
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Hi, I'm the author of mt32-pi.
Sorry about the broken USB; it doesn't get tested as often as GPIO MIDI so unfortunately I missed it!
Re: the volume - it should always be 100 when you first boot up. Some game/MIDI song will have lowered it via a SysEx message, I imagine.
The volume will be controllable via a rotary encoder soon.
Hi - Thanks a lot for browsing by and for your help! 😎
I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you (in the name of many here, I guess) for the excellent work.
Even though I'm one of the few people who own both a MT-32 and a CM64, I have a lot of fun tinkering with MT32-Pi and my Raspberry Pis.
I'm currently doing a little project that involves installing a Raspberry Pi (w/ MT32-Pi) in the chassis of an old alarm clock.
When I tried running it on a Pi 2, nothing happend at first, but it was my fault. 😅 My USB MIDI interface was plugged in another port,
so the MIDI I/O in Raspbian changed. Editing my DOSBox config and changing "midiconfig=24:0" to "midiconfig=20:0" fixed it.
Edit: Setting chunk size to 256 and disabling resampling seems to improve music playback on the Pi 2 in my copy of Frederik Pohl's Gateway.
IMHO, I think it is very cool that MT32-Pi still runs on the old Pi 2. Even though doing so is on the very limit (almost borderline).
Because, the Pi 3 has a power managment chip that easily breaks if 3.3v line gets a short (on the GPIO).
So an used, second-hand Pi 2 has a higher chance of functioning than a Pi 3, I assume.
Also, some late Pi 2's seem to have the same ARM chip as the Pi 3 (speaking under correction, though).
Speaking of the Pi 2.. I use a not so quick opto-isulator on the GPIO interface, a CNY17-2 in diode-"mode" only to make things faster.
It's not ideal and I experience some stuttering, perhaps some buffering issues (resampler_quality = fastest).
It seems to me that changing to a CM32L ROM set reduces this stuttering a bit, but still causes hanging notes.
That being said, not sure if this really has an effect or if it is just my imagination.
I must check with a fast optocoupler next time, if I can get one (my local seller only has common types).
Anyway, that's enough I guess. I don't mean to hijack fsmith2003's thread. 😅
Just wanted to provide some feedback.
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