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
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philly
I've never heard of this happening! Would you be able to take some samples? I'd like to hear what that sounds like. 
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Planet Zaxxon
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
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Planet Zaxxon
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.
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☺☺☺
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 ;)
Last edited by Emar (Feb 26, 2010 1:18 pm)
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
it's a 25+ year old NES console.. 
for grins.. try a friends NES and see what happens.
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Planet Zaxxon
low-gain wrote:
it's a 25+ year old NES console..
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.
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Geneva, NY
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.
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Planet Zaxxon
bleo wrote:
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.
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.... 
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
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.
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Planet Zaxxon
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.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
maybe you're rocking the NES too hard? Is that possible? teehee
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Lawrenceville, GA
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.
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rochester, ny
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.