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fiebrink1 / Sound_Control

A desktop app for rapidly making bespoke digital instruments.
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MIDI mapper is very quiet #13

Open fiebrink1 opened 5 years ago

fiebrink1 commented 5 years ago

If you're using MIDI in Sound Control, it's very quiet compared to other instruments, and there's no volume control in the interface.

MartinTownley commented 5 years ago

Assuming this issue regards use of the MIDI Mapper WITHOUT connecting to an external DAW:

The MIDI Mapper will let you connect to the operating system's own internal MIDI synthesiser. This will be the "AU DLS Synth" on MacOS, and the "GS Wavetable Synth" on Windows.

Once messages are sent to either one of these synths using the "noteout" object, it's up to the operating system's MIDI settings to determine the volume – there doesn't appear to be a way to change this from within Max.

The "noteout" object takes a velocity value in its second inlet, and I've made this accessible in the interface by including the velocity slider in an attempt to let the user boost the volume somewhat. However, the maximum value it will take and send to the respective operating system's synth is 127, and at this value it is still comparatively quiet.

On OSX Sierra at least, I can't find specific settings for the AU DLS Synth. They must be somewhere, but having trouble locating them. If a settings dialog box could be found with a volume control, then at least we could direct the user to this in case they weren't getting enough volume.

fiebrink1 commented 5 years ago

OK, good to know. Sounds like this is just something to live with for the moment.