sometimes when the end of a midi note is touching the beginning of the next midi note, and it's the same exact note value, it doesn't strike the second note.

so i shorten every note by a 64th note. thus nothing touches. thus no skips.

It could be that a certain revision of the hardware handles how it receives the data differently, and the MIDINES doesn't compensate for this... I don't really know though   Maybe look at your NES CPU revision and compare to your friends.

maybe you're rocking the NES too hard? Is that possible? teehee

I just dont have good luck with these things and again I didn't tell you about this, because I thought it was the midines this whole time. Thats all i had at the time,  one midines. And when I record each channel in a separate take, there are no skipping notes. So again I assumed it was the midines that was getting overworked when all the channels are going at once.  I would never think it was the nintendo itself. I never heard of anyone having problems with the nintendo itself that it would cause that to happen.

So now I have a powerpak again, and played back a track (nsf), and it skipped the sample channel also. So yes now I know it is the nintendo, and not anything else. There was just no way for me to know. I'm sorry.

and I emailed you yesterday and am waiting to hear back rather than on chipmusic.org.   I just posted on here, to see if anyone has had this problem before, and any suggestions.

I've fixed 2 NES's of yours, and gave you another to make up for the repeating issues of the first 2.. If you find another nes that you know works 100% feel free to send them both to me and i'll swap out the mods.

Every known working nes i've sent you has come back with an issue. I am trying to figure out how this keeps happening.

You should have emailed me the day you noticed it having issues rather then  months later.

yea see! thats what I thought.. I had 2 midines's as well.. and they both did it.. but I never figured to try it out on another nintendo until now.... 

LOL @ the dotpun-ny XD

INTERESTING.  I've always blamed MIDINES... I swapped out EVERY component in my MIDI setup, even MIDINES... but not the NES itself!!!!!!  I'm a dummy.

um yea, I did. I tried 3 nintendos. They all work perfect. Only this particular one does it, and it has been doing that since the day I received it.

it's a 25+ year old NES console.. for grins.. try a friends NES and see what happens.

Is it a loose pin on the cart connector? This is similar to when i buy games at thrift stores, the slightest vibration to the console ALMOST crashes it, but only enough to spaz for a second. Cleaning them always does the trick.

or maybe its some kind of voodoo spell that was cast or your nes to add that extra note in the sample channel ;)

some skip on the beat which is funny... but :23 shows how it can just sound bad... and that clip is only a 30 second section.. it keeps doin it through out the whole song... grrrrrrr.

its fine when i record these songs for real, and i record each channel as a separate take... it can handle one channel playing at a time.

ok I just did this right now in one recording take,  mono out.

http://www.oxygenstarpower.com/music/neskip.mp3

skips happen at:

:03
:06
:16
:23

I've never heard of this happening! Would you be able to take some samples? I'd like to hear what that sounds like.

I was wondering if anyone has had this problem. I have a nintendo that seems to add notes and skip notes in the sample channel at random. This whole time I thought it was the midines getting confused. But I received my powerpak today, and tried some nsfs I made on that same NES and it skips as well. So then I tried another stock nes (just a plain old nintendo i have as a backup), and no skipping with either midines, or powerpak.  So weird, has anyone heard of this happening? The actual soundchip skipping/adding notes in the sample channel.. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh