Strange problem of erratic volume behaviour in Garritan CFX Grand

vagfilm

I noticed a strange behaviour in Garritan, that I cannot solve and maybe some of you have already experienced this before and is able to ellucidate me. When playing one particular MIDI file (only that one) the volume slider of the close mic (but not the ambient) moves rapidly up and down with each note (!!!!!). So, the overall sound is like a very fast wah-wah effect. At first I did not even realized what was happening, and thought it was a buffer problem and changed buffer size, then changed driver, then reinstalled ASIO, and then saw the slider moving erratically on Garritan (I was rendering on Reaper, so the garritan window was not open). The same midi file plays perfectly on all other VSTs (VSL, pianoteq, Noire...) and I don't see anything strange in the midi events of that file (it has "key pressure" events because it is an XP MIDI file, but even If I delete those, the file still causes the same up and down movement of the slider).
Anyone saw this before? Is something related to Aria?

CyberGene

I haven’t seen this but I’m wondering if you may have inadvertently introduced a wrong control change in the MIDI file which the DAW assigns to that volume slider?

MacMacMac

Or maybe the poltergeist?

xooorx

The close mic volume is assigned to MIDI controller 16 in Garritan. Does the MIDI file not contain any of these?

vagfilm

Thanks. Yes, it was on CC16 (labeled as "GP Slider 1" on Reaper). Deleted those events and all is well now. It was also happening on the garritan standalone, so it was something within the file and not some wrong setting in the DAW.

Erratic sliders on Halloween ??? Go figure... At least there is now a thread with "problem" and "garritan" in the title 😀

EB5AGV

Imagine when you use motorized sliders… I have a couple controllers with them and, from time to time, I get scared on my nightly and quiet piano sessions by a sudden movement of the sliders (not a fault, but something like starting Cubase and I forgetting about the controllers behaviour 😅)