Jamstix 2.5.1 RC1 Available

Sheppol_A · Post by **Sheppol_A** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 4:42 pm

Access violations are usually something to do with RAM or the registry.They can be caused by badly seated/failing RAM.
However they can also be caused by two programs trying to access the same memory address and also a corrupted/bloated registry.
I use several free Registry cleaners and have done for years,

http://personal.inet.fi/business/toniarts/ecleane.htm

http://www.hoverdesk.net/freeware.htm

and compact the registry from time to time.

http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/regpak.php

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:08 pm

Access violations can actually be caused by many things within software, most of them being accessing an invalid pointer. The access violations Voltago got are most likely due to the revision file being empty, which Jamstix does not expect.

The famous BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) are the ones that are usually due to bad RAM or bad software drivers.

Sheppol_A · Post by **Sheppol_A** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 5:20 pm

Ralph [RZ] wrote:Access violations can actually be caused by many things within software, most of them being accessing an invalid pointer. The access violations Voltago got are most likely due to the revision file being empty, which Jamstix does not expect.

The famous BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death) are the ones that are usually due to bad RAM or bad software drivers.

I also had problems with a free Firewall I tried made by Some PC magazine.Got rid of that straight away so another program running may be causing a conflict?

ludmillus · Post by **ludmillus** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:59 pm

Hi Ralph,

these days I did a lot of programming with the new Beta-version, nearly everything in "JAM NO INPUT" or "DRUM MODUL"-Mode.

I have had a lot of fun and in my work Jamstix 2.5.1 Beta2 is doing everything fine - absolutly no trouble. GREAT!

Regards
Carl Matthias

Susan G · Post by **Susan G** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:45 pm

Hi Ralph-

I'm just wondering if you have any ETA for the official release of 2.5.1? I ask because while I'm having no problems I can attribute to the Beta directly, if I encounter an issue in one app I can't repro in another, the developers understandably want me to try it in an official released version.

Thanks-

-Susan

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:15 pm

2.5.1 Beta 2 is what we officially recommend at this time. It is not official as we're still working on some additional things for the final release.

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:23 pm

Release Candidate 1 is now out. This is a full exe updater with updated manual.

Susan G · Post by **Susan G** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:34 pm

Excellent!:D Thanks, Ralph.

-Susan

acabreira · Post by **acabreira** » Mon Mar 09, 2009 11:25 pm

Hey, Ralph, IÂ´ve had some problems with the latest releases (canÂ´t say itÂ´s only the last for sure), here I tell you what:

* There are notes that I enter in a cell and when I pass the mouse over they donÂ´t preview. Sometimes it happens in accents too.

* When I mark a fill with Â´no grooveÂ´, I expect that inserting a piece in a beat before the first beat produced by the brain should mute the groove from the newly edited beat to the end of the bar, but itÂ´s not happening. IÂ´m not sure if thatÂ´s supposed to work this way; is Â´no grooveÂ´ working only for brain created fills only and only in beats created by the brain? I think itÂ´s desirable that custom fills mute groove as well (and IÂ´m almost sure it worked like this before).

* Â´Start CrashÂ´ doesnÂ´t work always as well, I could find a pattern yet , but maybe itÂ´s just a matter of limb conflict, so I need to further check.

* There is a problem with drums preview I detected in the DRUM 1 part of Jamcussion, the DRUM 1 MED, RIM AND MUTE all preview the first slot.

IÂ´ve been working in other instruments and stayed sometime far from editing in JS2, so why IÂ´m not sure which release cause me problem, because I always update.

Thanks!

Post by **Ralph @ Rayzoon** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 3:36 pm

Bar editor sound preview: I cannot duplicate this. Can you send me a save song that does that and tell me bar and note where it happens?

No groove: I can't duplicate this either. I have a auto-composed fill and manually place a note on beat 1. The groove stops on beat 1 as expected. Could you send me a save song file that exhibits your problem?

Start crash: we are looking into that.

Drum 1 preview: works fine for me. If you do not have an sound assigned to med, rim or mute then JS automatically uses the next available sound type.