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From: Jim <jim@codeworks.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.sound
Subject: Re: Help!
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 16:30:59 +0000
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Dev Support wrote:
> 
> Our sound man says
> 
> (1) Once the VB data has been transferred to SRAM,
> the vb can be happily overwritten, but the vh must remain
> intact in RAM.

OK that's what I'm doing at present, so there should be no problems
there. (Or so I would assume. )

> 
> 
> How reproducible is your problem? 

It's reproducible to the point that I know the game will crash at a
certain point, when I'm under heavy fire, therefore lots of sound
effects running at once.  If I remove all the sound effect code and go
to the same point in the game, it won't crash.

After I've keyed on an effect with no loops do I still have to key it
off again?  Or will it do this for me once it has finished playing?
Will things also get a bit glitchy if I fire off more than 24 samples at
once? I don't think this is happening, but could be possible.

>Have you tried it
> with different vh/vb files? 

Not yet.  Is there a maximum size to a vb?
Would it help if I split each sound effect into a separate vb?


>Does it happen just for certain keyons?
>

I'm going to test this tonight..  I'll let you know..

Cheers

Jim