The Quilcom SIM-BP: Simulate bagpipes. If you want.

[newdsp]

As soon as the PC Keyboard is connected or activated or the Midi In is re-connected that seems to send a midi event of some kind which gives the error.

I'm thinking to not connect any midi ports to the script directly. Only the output from the midi splitter to be connected and processed by the script. That way I can check if Status is 144 and Data 1 is the note number needed then just output the note and the status. It should be less complicated that way.

[Spogg]

I find it worrying that I didn’t get any problems myself in 3.06. The only issue I had during development was in the FS4 alpha, and it was pointed out that I’d used the word “send” as a method name which, it turns out, is a reserved word. But that was fixed easily before release and trog kindly gave me a method to list all the forbidden words.

But I realise there’s one thing in common with my tests in 3.06 and FS4 alpha: my PC. I have a core i7 2nd gen running Widows 7 32 bit and 64 bit partitions. So if there’s something different it could be a critical timing issue of some sort. So could you tell me the spec and OS etc of your PC please?

It’s also worth mentioning that I’ve had a lot of favourable feedback about the plugin with no mention of any issues other than one guy who found that the on-screen midi keyboard didn’t work in Reaper, but a real keyboard was fine. Maybe that’s a clue but I don’t know how to interpret it.

[newdsp]

Mine is Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit but it's possible I'm missing some of the older C++ runtimes. I will have to do all the updates first and see if that changes anything. At the moment I'm seeing only the C++ 2008 to 2013 installed. I never tried it with a midi controller yet. I only use the PC Keyboard for midi input.

[Spogg]

I just checked and on my system it works with just the PC keyboard. Not all the keys are mapped on the GHB presets but it works fine with NSP presets etc (full chromatic).

What’s your CPU?

[newdsp]

CPU is an AMD FX 8350 but I don't see how it can be from the CPU because the Chaos is opening and running fine. It even works in 309b2. FL Studio also works with many other plugins. It might need the older 2005 C++ runtime I'm guessing which looks like it's not installed.

[Spogg]

I agree the CPU shouldn’t be the cause. I just wondered if there might be some timing issue if yours was quite a bit slower. But it’s similar spec to mine.

So the other variables are the Windows version and C++ as you say.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

[newdsp]

In the Midi Globals I found 12 wireless connectors that are greyed out or not connecting to the source/destination at all. That's definitely an error with the fsm file. It's hard to fix it when I don't even know how all that key switching is supposed to work. Maybe we could simplify it by making it random or automatic ?

This code also shows no errors when using midi splitter and combiner:

if @status = 144 and @note = 48 or 50 or 60
output 0, @status
output 1, @note
end

[trogluddite]

This code also shows no errors when using midi splitter and combiner:

if @status = 144 and @note = 48 or 50 or 60

TL/DR: The above predicate will always return true. It may also assign new values to @status and/or @note! The following line (among other possible ones) should do what you want...

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if 144 == @status && (48 == @note || 50 == @note || 60 == @note)

There are multiple reasons for this, so no quick way to describe why the original code is flawed. So, i've made a new thread about how Ruby booleans work, using the above line as a useful example: TRUE or FALSE: Ruby booleans are weird?!

[newdsp]

I will have to test it to really see if it's doing the note filtering and if it's passing only the note on messages. In the mean time I made a random panner that can be used with the Quilcom Flooper. I probably have to make the Flooper inputs selectable between mono and stereo for this to work properly.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1POY0fH ... sp=sharing