[Ardour-Users] Skipped notes with Cabbage Audio plugin

[Robin Gareus]

On 06/03/2018 05:19 PM, Mark Raynsford wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've just used Cabbage Audio [0] to produce a very simple VST plugin.
> To try it out, I put together a midi track in Ardour that just plays a
> few notes whilst automating some parameter changes.

When you automate a control parameter, Ardour splits the cycle:
process N samples, change parameter, process remaining samples.

Some plugins do not cope with this and always expect a complete cycle.


[...]
> !!!! MIDI event @ 683 skipped, not within range 0 .. 683:
> !!!! MIDI event @ 256 skipped, not within range 0 .. 256: 	
[...]

Those should only happen when looping, except there were a few bugs
related to offsetting midi-events when splitting a plugin's cycle.

In some case the events are timestamped relative to cycle-start in some
cases they can be timestamped relative to the split cycle. This has
already been fixed in Ardour-git, but MIDI  is work in progress.

In any case this message is for write-back (midi to port) plugins on the
track should not be affected.

> The reason I don't remove the plugin is that I'm
> suspicious that the missed notes occur when they're played in
> combination with parameter automation

I can confirm this suspicion to be correct.

Still unless you're using seemless loop (which splits the complete
cycle). The effect should only be present for the automated plugin.

ciao,
robin