Hello, I am trying to do literally anything on this cool looking program and it only plays the preloaded MIDI screen with no sound. I am unable to load or delete anything. I see there might be an issue with running this on a Mac, which I am on. Any help anywhere?
Is there any sort of tutorial for this, as I want to use it for my songs in the future but am not quite sure how to change the visualiser's notes to correspond to the JSON?
I love using it, but I’ve been doing some customisations and want to reset my settings to the default way the software was set up when it was installed. Is there an easy way to do this, or can you add a button to be able to reset everything?
Currently, I can reset everything except the background image. I’d really like to have a way to reset the background to the default black one.
Once again, thanks so much for this very useful app!
Hi, I love your player!! But there's just a few bugs. Thanks to you making it open source I was able to investigate the occasional "zero duration notes" issue even in non-staccato channels. I think the fix is to simply alter sort_ascending() in beat_detection.gd to look like this:
func sort_ascending(a, b):
if a[2] == b[2]:
if a[1] == -100 or a[1] == -128:
return true
if a[2] < b[2]:
return true
return false
With that little addition the MIDI note off events will be sorted before new note on events. I didn't look into your note processing logic for a reason as to why that causes an issue, but it was definitely related to note on/off triggering at the same time, and with this change I didn't see the issue come up on my test songs.
Hope it's useful, and thanks for making this great player!! :)
Super thankful you've created something that helps us music folk post our songs in a visually appealing way!! Thank you for making this :))
I am having some toruble, when I add my midi and mp3 files, they show up but they're terribly where the notes will be way to the right when they play, instead of how the demo showed they would play upon reaching the center of the screen. I can't seem to figure out how to fix this, any documentation or tutorials I can look at?
When I drag & drop the MIDI files, i have some issues. Reset Live Preview option is not working, the issues are still there. I'm using Windows.
If the MIDI has only 1 track, it starts somewhere in the middle as if the whole notes were dragged to the left.
If the MIDI has various tracks or is exported using FL Studio, it shows nothing. At all. It's just the black background. I made sure it's exported okay.
UPDATE: it works fine, it's just my computer (it's not precisely new but not super old either). The exported products are fine, so as long as it's just some issues here and there with the preview (I'm not super smart sometimes), there's nothing wrong.
By the way, it would really help if WAV files could be played as well... It looks like they're accepted by the application, but they don't play, and the problem with mp3 files is they have a slight delay in the beginning which can affects intricate time dependent syncing thingies like these kinds of programs
ogg would be a better compressed file to use (better quality with same the same bitrate too)
on top of that, i found a bug that makes it impossible to compensate for this... when i add an offset of 0.03 for example the whole thing glitches out in the render basically, and a whole bunch of other glitches that i can't bother to explain right now but i'm sure you know why and how it happens
CRAZY laggy (stuttering and ~3-4 fps) on my system for some reason. live preview kinda just... doesnt work? either it glitches out rendering a bunch of notes all at once or renders none of them. video export works fine, thankfully, but takes quite a while, an hour minimum. is this normal?
running windows x64, 16-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950x at 4.4 GHz. 32GB of ram. HEEEAAAALLLLPPP!!!!
Do you have a graphics card? This is heavy on graphics and a CPU's integrated graphics will give you just about that performance, in my opinion. If you have a graphics card, Windows may not be selecting it for ALMAM Player, which in that case you can go in Windows graphics settings and select the application, manually force discrete processing or use graphics card instead of "Let Windows decide", and that will ensure it's using the graphics card. For the rendering too, it all depends on your graphics card and I just don't see any way possible for someone to render that kind of video on a CPU in a short time.
Let me know if it works :) If I recall correctly, it happened to me and forcing the graphics card fixed it (although sometimes it gets laggy randomly, so I just save and reopen, and it usually fixes it)
Hmm, does the NVIDIA game thingy popup when you open it? Only after I set the graphics card to be forced on, did it start popping up when I open it. Maybe try to set it from the nvidia control panel too just in case windows graphics isn't enough, i did it on both
hi! i wanted to try this visualizer out for the first time on my mac and it seems that my midi notes aren't showing up. do you know what could be the problem?
Hey there, you made a great tool! I just wanted to point out that the player was broken for me. I did some troubleshooting and found the problem. The player wouldn't load any json files and instead do nothing or other mysterious stuff. The reason for that was that when a new json config file gets created, there are some json fields that have no items in them and I think that's why the player is not accepting the file. I had to first add at least one dummy item into each empty json field. Then I could select the json file in the player and everything was working.
I thought you want to know that because I can imagine that this might happen to other people as well. Cheers!
nevermind, when I was finally able to convert the AVI to mp4 (which was a long struggle in itself), I saw how the pitch bend shows up in the video now. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me before but I think it didn't show up in the preview. Also a different problem I've now discovered is when the slide does get activated, it resets the position of the note back to where it was before it started playing, if that makes sense. Then it slides from there, instead of the position it was already in after the note was hit. This causes slides to be even less apparent, and sometimes even appear to be sliding up when the opposite is occurring.
Hi! I'm not really having a bug really, but I've noticed that my notes aren't really using the whole screen well. They tend to stay really close together and sometimes the note change isn't very obvious. I have margins set to use the whole screen and have played around with other sliders but haven't had much success getting them to spread out. Is this the midi files fault, or would you have some other advice?
I guess just to throw in another quick question, I've seen some people have what seems like gifs playing as their background image and almamplayer hasnt been taking mine. Is that supposed to be supported or is it just some editing trick on their part?
hi ! the note spacing works by setting the highest and the lowest note to the margins and evenly spreading out the notes between them so if u have really high and really low notes it could get a little cramped,. i'd probably try moving up/down the track with the lowest/highest notes an octave for the midi so the range of the notes is smaller. animated backgrounds are not supported right now, i think people just do a solid color and chroma key it in a video editor
Hey! I'm having trouble importing background images on Mac, trying to drag and drop them into the player. Is there a specific filesize, type, or resolution that images need to be or am I just doing it wrong?
hey i'm running this program on a mac and apparently I can't add new tracks and see the four buttons on top (new config ~ save as...) what do you think is happening?
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anytime i upload my files a black screen is there and even when i delete %appdata% it still doesn't work
Yeah same and I don't know if we'll get any answers. the creator doesn't seem to be active anymore.
Hello, I am trying to do literally anything on this cool looking program and it only plays the preloaded MIDI screen with no sound. I am unable to load or delete anything. I see there might be an issue with running this on a Mac, which I am on. Any help anywhere?
No matter what I do all when I open the program it is just a black screen.
idk why but i can't play any midis nor mp3s, does someon know what's up?
i cant find any option to set a bpm i think im stupid
the bpm is set in the midi itself
Is there any sort of tutorial for this, as I want to use it for my songs in the future but am not quite sure how to change the visualiser's notes to correspond to the JSON?
Hi Almam!
Thank you for this visualizer. I've been slowly figuring it out for the past couple days.
One thing: the live visualization is broken more often than not on my end, and resetting it sadly doesn't seem to do anything.
Strangely, it always works perfectly with the demo config that comes with the program. WHat could it be?
Hi Almam!
Thanks for this amazing visualiser!
I love using it, but I’ve been doing some customisations and want to reset my settings to the default way the software was set up when it was installed. Is there an easy way to do this, or can you add a button to be able to reset everything?
Currently, I can reset everything except the background image. I’d really like to have a way to reset the background to the default black one.
Once again, thanks so much for this very useful app!
Hi, I love your player!! But there's just a few bugs. Thanks to you making it open source I was able to investigate the occasional "zero duration notes" issue even in non-staccato channels. I think the fix is to simply alter sort_ascending() in beat_detection.gd to look like this:
func sort_ascending(a, b):
if a[2] == b[2]:
if a[1] == -100 or a[1] == -128:
return true
if a[2] < b[2]:
return true
return false
With that little addition the MIDI note off events will be sorted before new note on events. I didn't look into your note processing logic for a reason as to why that causes an issue, but it was definitely related to note on/off triggering at the same time, and with this change I didn't see the issue come up on my test songs.
Hope it's useful, and thanks for making this great player!! :)
Super thankful you've created something that helps us music folk post our songs in a visually appealing way!! Thank you for making this :))
I am having some toruble, when I add my midi and mp3 files, they show up but they're terribly where the notes will be way to the right when they play, instead of how the demo showed they would play upon reaching the center of the screen. I can't seem to figure out how to fix this, any documentation or tutorials I can look at?
literally just a black screen no matter what i do. already deleted the thing in %appdata% like 3 times and nothing was fixed.
When I drag & drop the MIDI files, i have some issues. Reset Live Preview option is not working, the issues are still there. I'm using Windows.
If the MIDI has only 1 track, it starts somewhere in the middle as if the whole notes were dragged to the left.
If the MIDI has various tracks or is exported using FL Studio, it shows nothing. At all. It's just the black background. I made sure it's exported okay.
UPDATE: it works fine, it's just my computer (it's not precisely new but not super old either). The exported products are fine, so as long as it's just some issues here and there with the preview (I'm not super smart sometimes), there's nothing wrong.
By the way, it would really help if WAV files could be played as well... It looks like they're accepted by the application, but they don't play, and the problem with mp3 files is they have a slight delay in the beginning which can affects intricate time dependent syncing thingies like these kinds of programs
ogg would be a better compressed file to use (better quality with same the same bitrate too)
on top of that, i found a bug that makes it impossible to compensate for this... when i add an offset of 0.03 for example the whole thing glitches out in the render basically, and a whole bunch of other glitches that i can't bother to explain right now but i'm sure you know why and how it happens
CRAZY laggy (stuttering and ~3-4 fps) on my system for some reason. live preview kinda just... doesnt work? either it glitches out rendering a bunch of notes all at once or renders none of them. video export works fine, thankfully, but takes quite a while, an hour minimum. is this normal?
running windows x64, 16-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950x at 4.4 GHz. 32GB of ram. HEEEAAAALLLLPPP!!!!
Do you have a graphics card? This is heavy on graphics and a CPU's integrated graphics will give you just about that performance, in my opinion. If you have a graphics card, Windows may not be selecting it for ALMAM Player, which in that case you can go in Windows graphics settings and select the application, manually force discrete processing or use graphics card instead of "Let Windows decide", and that will ensure it's using the graphics card. For the rendering too, it all depends on your graphics card and I just don't see any way possible for someone to render that kind of video on a CPU in a short time.
sorry i forgot to mention i'm using an NVIDIA RTX 3090ti. i will try your suggestion tho thx
Let me know if it works :) If I recall correctly, it happened to me and forcing the graphics card fixed it (although sometimes it gets laggy randomly, so I just save and reopen, and it usually fixes it)
Didn't work.
Hmm, does the NVIDIA game thingy popup when you open it? Only after I set the graphics card to be forced on, did it start popping up when I open it. Maybe try to set it from the nvidia control panel too just in case windows graphics isn't enough, i did it on both
哇，非常易于使用的软件，感谢您的分享
hi! i wanted to try this visualizer out for the first time on my mac and it seems that my midi notes aren't showing up. do you know what could be the problem?
Hey there, you made a great tool!
I just wanted to point out that the player was broken for me. I did some troubleshooting and found the problem. The player wouldn't load any json files and instead do nothing or other mysterious stuff.
The reason for that was that when a new json config file gets created, there are some json fields that have no items in them and I think that's why the player is not accepting the file.
I had to first add at least one dummy item into each empty json field. Then I could select the json file in the player and everything was working.
I thought you want to know that because I can imagine that this might happen to other people as well.
Cheers!
Hey there, I don't see a difference with midi pitch events in the midi file, what am I supposed to see change? It looks just like normal notes...
nevermind, when I was finally able to convert the AVI to mp4 (which was a long struggle in itself), I saw how the pitch bend shows up in the video now. Maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me before but I think it didn't show up in the preview. Also a different problem I've now discovered is when the slide does get activated, it resets the position of the note back to where it was before it started playing, if that makes sense. Then it slides from there, instead of the position it was already in after the note was hit. This causes slides to be even less apparent, and sometimes even appear to be sliding up when the opposite is occurring.
Hi! I'm not really having a bug really, but I've noticed that my notes aren't really using the whole screen well. They tend to stay really close together and sometimes the note change isn't very obvious. I have margins set to use the whole screen and have played around with other sliders but haven't had much success getting them to spread out. Is this the midi files fault, or would you have some other advice?
Hope I explained that well.
I guess just to throw in another quick question, I've seen some people have what seems like gifs playing as their background image and almamplayer hasnt been taking mine. Is that supposed to be supported or is it just some editing trick on their part?
hi ! the note spacing works by setting the highest and the lowest note to the margins and evenly spreading out the notes between them so if u have really high and really low notes it could get a little cramped,. i'd probably try moving up/down the track with the lowest/highest notes an octave for the midi so the range of the notes is smaller.
animated backgrounds are not supported right now, i think people just do a solid color and chroma key it in a video editor
Hey! I'm having trouble importing background images on Mac, trying to drag and drop them into the player. Is there a specific filesize, type, or resolution that images need to be or am I just doing it wrong?
i was having a similar problem trying to import png but converting it to jpg worked for me ^_^
hey i'm running this program on a mac and apparently I can't add new tracks and see the four buttons on top (new config ~ save as...) what do you think is happening?
you have to drag and drop a type 1 midi file in and it will show the tracks, you cant add/delete tracks it just shows whats in the midi file
Is it my pc issues that can't render anything longer than 2min (around 7500frame)
it stops rendering when it reaches the end of the mp3, the demo song is 1:58 so it could be that i think