z7-3 PA Does Not Engage

[PeterSt]

Hi Praphan,

First off, take it that I *know* that you know your stuff very well. So, it can't be about that. Therefore you must take the few remarks below as the positive input to what could be going on really. Okay ?

The only setting that I can get PA engaged is to set "fade out step" to 0.

Totally impossible that this is related.

and the other new feature within PA to 0 too (sorry cannot remember the name

"After SFS Rounds".
This can be true, but if all is right, only visually (*~* stuff). Of course, when you set your SFS to 430 and SFS Rounds to 9, then PA will never engage for the first track.

What is far more likely, is that something is incurred for which is related to XXEngine3.exe being in memory all the time, and a reattempt of Playback does strange things, unexpected by me and your usage. Or ... what about you have left it in memory at upgrading to 0.9z-7-3 ? That would be highly incompatible. There's a check in the "install" to throw it out, but maybe that doesn't work properly, or you did not upgrade to a new folder. Anyway ...

When the latter is not in order, please focus on re-attempting playback. So, when you see strange things, first kill the sound engine from memory (click on the blue led in the right) and start playback right after that (quite harmless to Memory Allocation if you don't wait 30 seconds).
All IOW, in *that* area things "drastically" changed and mistake can have been made easily by me. Still I don't have any problem myself, so the chance that this is it is unlikely.

Activation stuff *is* likely as well as applying the "upgrade" is, like I just talked about ...

Let me know what you find !
Regards,
Peter

[PeterSt]

I deliberately played with SFS Rounds at non-zero (which I don't need) for hours last night, and all was and stayed right.
And notice that the Fade-out step at 0 doesn't tell a thing. It is just that other "step size" (see ToolTip). So, default is 3 and it is advised to have it at that, but again, 0 is nothing like "deactivated" or something; It just implies another step value.

Increasing buffer size (eg Q1 = 30 x 3) will not engage PA.

Maybe a remark about this one;
This is totally unrelated to PA engaging or not. One exception : when a message tells you that the product of DevBufSize x Q1 x Q1F will not allow Phase Alignment (you may never have seen it, but it does does exist).

Regards,
Peter

[praphan]

Hi Praphan

When you set it at a different setting than zero (SFS Rounds) PA is engaged after the seconds you have set but you can't see the engaging on the coverart.

If i understand it correctly.

 

Hi Gerard,

Yes, you understand it correctly and help me understand SFS round feature correctly as well. My bad that did not read the tool tips well.

Thanks a lot
Praphan

[praphan]

Hi Praphan,

First off, take it that I *know* that you know your stuff very well. So, it can't be about that. Therefore you must take the few remarks below as the positive input to what could be going on really. Okay ?

Hi Peter,

Please do not always assume that I do *know* what I am doing well.

I made a stupid mistake this time. Last night, I hopped out from my flight sim and jumped into my listening room just to download and install z7-3 , neglecting an important routine to read the tool tips for the new PA features thoroughly. Well I guess you can tell that since I did not even remember the "name" of the SFS rounds.

Apologize to give you a false impression that SFS rounds may contain bugs and wasting your valuable hour. With higher SFS setting, I need to be patient to wait a bit longer down the track to see PA kicks in (with SFS rounds >0). The sign  _~_ in the wallpaper will be changed to *~* in a few seconds after starting of the track.

So this is nothing about activation or installation at all.

SFS rounds is not quite useful for me since I don't have problem with crack at the beginning of the track. I have strong LF AC pulse at stop of the track. Fade out step does not eliminate this AC pulse. It is not audible anyway since the frequency is so low. Still scratch my head.

Kind regards,
Praphan

[PeterSt]

Praphan,

Don't apologize too much. Some people can do a ~100 times without. Okay ?
And that is only my opinion ...

Peter