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Originally Posted by Dousan

@mikec 60 bpm is 60 hits in a min. so if it's set to that the bpm should work correctly, havn't tested it myself with a timer yet. It's wierd with the multiple sounds not playing at the same time, hope you can fix it?

Originally Posted by aspidites

Until you get it wrapped with ctypes, you could always call http://wildmidi.sourceforge.net/?manpage=wildmidi from subprocess.Popen()

Originally Posted by generationally

The beat engine seems to have some issue with playing more than 1 sample which has the same timing.

E.g. if you set up the hi-hat and snare to both play on beats 1, 5, 9 ,13 then the hi-hat and snare samples are not played simultaneously. It seems like the snare sample is not played until the hi-hat sample has finished playing.

Is there some issue with playing two or more samples simultaneously in your implementation? Or am I the only one having this issue?

Originally Posted by mikec

@generationally, It seems that when you flip back to the keyboard, the beat sounds go back to being concurrent. Then when you flip back to the beat screen they go sequentially.

Can you verify that you have the same.

Thanks Mike C

Originally Posted by mikec

@aspidties anychance you could knock up a bit of pythin code as an example of playing a note
My biggest bug bear with maesynth at the moment is messing with wav files. If I could just pull in a midi instrument and play it.......

Originally Posted by aspidites

pyFluidSynth seems like it's pretty straightforward

Code:

import time
import fluidsynth

fs = fluidsynth.Synth()
fs.start()

sfid = fs.sfload("example.sf2")
fs.program_select(0, sfid, 0, 0)

fs.noteon(0, 60, 30)
fs.noteon(0, 67, 30)
fs.noteon(0, 76, 30)

time.sleep(1.0)

fs.noteoff(0, 60)
fs.noteoff(0, 67)
fs.noteoff(0, 76)

time.sleep(1.0)

fs.delete()

Code taken from http://code.google.com/p/pyfluidsynth/ . Explanation of code is there as well.