Multi-channel volume issue on OSX Player

FlimFlamboyant

(Seen in version 2013.09.1 as well as 2014.01)

Yesterday, I was looking in to creating a gameplay video for a project I'm working on and noticed a problem with the sound effects in Gideros Player on the Mac. The game has continuous, ambient background noise played at varying levels of volume. Most of the time, the volume is set low. If, however, I play a short sound on top of it, the volume of the ambient sound will increase temporarily, until the new sound stops. I'm using OSX Mavericks. This problem doesn't show up on Windows.

Full disclosure: I recently installed iShowU, a video-capturing program that installed extra software called "soundflower" in order to enable the recording of system audio. It required a reboot, so I'm assuming it must have tweaked something at the driver level. I'm pretty sure I was having a problem before this as well, but I'm not positive. In any case, I uninstalled soundflower, rebooted, and tried it again with the same result.

FlimFlamboyant

Update: The problem seems to be intermittent (lovely). It happens about half the time when I fire up my game in a fresh instance of Player. Also, there are times during the game where the ambient volume is cranked all the way up (it's usually set at 0.1). Once this happens, the issue resolves itself.

ar2rsawseen

@FlimFlamboyant yes we have lots of troubles with sound engine, especially as it is different and different platforms, but no worries, we are in the process of moving to completely new crossplatform sound engine which we hope will resolve all the sound issues and even add more features

FlimFlamboyant

Sounds good. Nothing urgent (at least in my case), as it's just the Player on the Mac that I'm having an issue with, and I can get around that. Thanks!