Re: [fluid-dev] some notes of Cadenza.sf2 don't sound right

[Mihail Zenkov]

> > What about 'internal clipping', how can i reproduce this?
> 
> I notice that when playing many notes of an instrument it starts
> sounding clipped, but the output going to the sound card is not full
> output.  Lowering the synth.gain parameter of course helps this.  It
> just seems like FluidSynth is rather sensitive to gain problems.  I'm
> curious how other synthesizers usually handle this.  Having something
> like automatic gain, would likely cause issues too.

Output volume should by:

float out = 0;
for (i=0; i < num_notes; i++)
        out += note_vol[i] ;
out *= gain;

If we want press five keys together without any clipping, we should set
gain=0.2. Right?

Or fluidsynth have case, when out < 1, but you hear clipping?