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Hello again. It seems that MIDI playback bypasses breakaway entirely (including volume control). And Breakaway pipeline is not listed under MIDI playback devices (in control panel audio). Not that much of a problem but some old games and RPG maker games (mayb? some other pre-made game engines) tend to use MIDI music. Is it possible to assighn breakaway handle MIDI playback (at least volume control)?
It is recomended somewhere on this site to set system, players and speakers volume to max and let breakaway handle the volume, I don’t remember setting midi volume to the max, but it got there somehow anyway. So I think you can imagine volume I got when one of those RPG Maker games started it’s MIDI music bypassing breakaway entirely))) It was for just few seconds before i managed to shut down that game but I think whole floor heard that one……and thus I’m typing this post here.
Hi Maniak!
You know, the same thing happened to be now that I tried it.. The midi music blasted out at full volume, even though my Breakaway volume control was set very low.
I’m afraid I don’t have a good answer, other than that it’s a bug — in Windows.
If you look at Control Panel, Sounds and Audio Devices, Audio, you’ll see that Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth is the default midi device.
Click on About. In the About box, you’ll probably see that the digital audio output device for the software synthesizer is Breakaway Pipeline 1.So, everything is configured correctly — but the software synth plays through the wrong device.
As yet, I do not know any way around this operating system bug. The only solution I can think for now is to click on "Volume" (next to the about button), which should bring up the sound card mixer, and mute the SW Synth channel completely (and also pull the slider all the way down, just to be sure).
///Leif
Volume sliders for main sound card and this Microsoft GS synth … thing… seems to be linked. When I lower main volume in GS synth sond card’s main volume also decreases and vice versa. Currently I solved this by lowering "Synthesizer" or "Sw synth" (not sure about correct translation) slider almont to off (1, 2 or maybe 3 above off) in sound card volume controls (this afffected default MIDI device settings as well). That maked MIDI volume not that freaking loud maintaining "Normal" sound volume to the max and handled by breakaway.
P.S. By the way when MIDI music is playing breakaway doesn’t "see" it. (I mean it’s Osciloscope).
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