Re: [hatari-devel] Falcon tests -> sound issues

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Excellent news. Well done Nicolas !

I've tested "4musiK", some demos with sound, Audio Fun machine (AFM), 
some games and everything seems ok again.

I'll do more tests tonight to confirm that.

Is it a placebo feeling or the falcon sounds much better now ?

I find the falcon sound better than before (with EkoSystem demo for 
example, or many other demos tested)

The falcon microphone works well too and the sound is very nice.


Regards

Laurent


Le 17/06/2022 à 16:52, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> Le 06/06/2022 à 18:29, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> > Le 05/06/2022 à 23:10, Nicolas Pomarède a écrit :
> >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I found some code from a few years back;
> > > > http://ae.dhs.nu/tmp/falcsmp.zip
> > > >
> > > > I'm a noob about setting up the Falcon sound system but it does 
> > > > play 16 bit stereo 49170 Hz OK on my Falcon in 030 and 060 modes.
> > > > In Hatari it will get distorted sound that comes and goes.
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > thanks, that's just what I needed, it will be easier to fix/improve 
> > > falcon sound with a "simple" program that just play sound and wait 
> > > for a key.
> >
> > One bug was fixed, related to the new CycInt code ; sound is now 
> > better, at least during 20 sec when using your falcsmp.tos test.
> >
> > After that, it becomes noisy again, some bugs remain to be fixed :)
>
> Hi
>
> good news, the sound problem in Falcon mode was finally fixed.
>
> This was quite hard to debug because the whole crossbar code requires 
> to mix several input source at different freq and to output sound at 
> another freq too (44.1 kHz for example), all that with possible 
> rounding errors that must be compensated to keep a constant flow of 
> bytes.
>
> After much tracing, the problem was in fact that this code used a 
> wrong value for the Falcon's cpu freq since several years :-( This was 
> not noticable before because sound mixing was done in a different 
> (less accurate) way, but now with cycle accurate YM2149 we require all 
> the clocks (cpu, dma, ym) to be as accurate as possible.
>
> Anyway, sound quality should be as good as before ; only remaining 
> rounding error can cause a small drift that will mess sound again 
> after 2 hours of playing sound :(
>
> So not perfect yet, but it will be good enough for Hatari 2.4 and 
> should be fixed later.
>
> I tested with 4musiK, the falcsmp example program from Ander and 030 
> demo by DML. Please check the demos that didn't sound good recently.
>
> Nicolas