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Player volume fix#303

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mostafa-nabil:player_volume_fix
Nov 22, 2020
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Player volume fix#303
cameronwhite merged 2 commits intopowertab:masterfrom
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Description of Change(s)

The changes fixes the issue that each individual player volume in the mixer cannot be set/has no effect. The change involves handling volume change midi events separate from other event, as well as a small modification in the midievent class

Fixes Issue(s)

#276

midiplayer.cpp -> volumechanged event is treated separately in order to include the maxVolume threshold
midievent.cpp -> added a check isVolumeChange()
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This looks good, thanks for working on this!

Just a couple minor things noted in the comments, and a possible alternative to getPlayerFromChannel() that I'm unsure about.

return myIsPlaying;
}

int MidiPlayer::getPlayerFromChannel(const int channel)
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An alternative to this function would be to record the player number on the MidiEvent, which avoids having to duplicate the logic for how players are assigned to channels. (There's actually an unused myPlayer member variable in MidiEvent that was intended for this.purpose, but the myInstrument member should probably be removed).

What are your thoughts on that?

If we stick with the current approach, those unused members should be removed, and there's also a compiler warning (below) where the compiler incorrectly thinks the result could be uninitialized:

../source/audio/midiplayer.cpp:314:14: warning: variable 'player' is used uninitialized whenever 'if' condition is false [-Wsometimes-uninitialized]
    else if (channel > METRONOME_CHANNEL)
             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../source/audio/midiplayer.cpp:319:12: note: uninitialized use occurs here
    return player;
           ^~~~~~
../source/audio/midiplayer.cpp:314:10: note: remove the 'if' if its condition is always true
    else if (channel > METRONOME_CHANNEL)
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
../source/audio/midiplayer.cpp:303:15: note: initialize the variable 'player' to silence this warning
    int player;
              ^
               = 0
1 warning generated.

// handle volume change events
// using device.setVolume() ensures that the maximum volume threshold
// is taken into consideration
if(event -> isVolumeChange())
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The formatting is a bit inconsistent here - should be if (event->isVolumeChange())

// is taken into consideration
if(event -> isVolumeChange())
{
device.setVolume(channel, event->getData()[2]);
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Could you wrap the event->getData()[2] in a function similar to MidiEvent::getTempo()? It's nice to encapsulate the MIDI details in that class.

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