[LAU] Problem with qsynth: noise

[david]

On 01/25/2014 02:58 AM, jonetsu at teksavvy.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    I'm seeing that as soon as I trigger a sound on qsynth (eg. a drum
> pad on the Axiom 25) the audio gets garbled a lot, becomes very noisy,
> and I have to terminate qsynth.  qsynth version 0.3.6-2, Linux Mint 14
> 64bits.  fluid-soundfont-gm and -gs version 3.1-5. It actually recently
> started to do that once in a while, and now it is unusable as it
> immediately outputs growing noise as soon as a note is played.  A bit
> strange because usually software does not get worse like an old car can.
>
>    I've shut down Ardour, and started qsynth and now it does that by
> itself, after a few seconds.  Like a highly distorted growing larsen
> effect, becomes bery loud, and then fades away in crackling bits.  Then
> the audio cannot be used.  If Ardour was playing, the Ardour sounds
> becomes fully distorted with crackling asounds.  Have to stop qsynth,
> then the Ardour audio becomes normal again.  When qsynth is stopped,
> there's a click and audio becomes normal.
>
>    Using qjackctl, I disconnect all audio from system and PulseAudio
> Jack Sink.  All MIDI also disconnected. When I started qsynth, two
> connections were made from qsynth to playback1 and 2, which is OK.  And
> then after a few seconds noise appeared.  W/o any note being played.
>
>    There does not seem to be an update to the qsynth package (at least
> in the scope of Linux Mint 14).
>
>    Hopefully, other people have noticed this problem !

Have not encountered it. Possible that the qsynth config file got messed 
up? I have no idea where it's kept.

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