MIDI Lead-in Issue
Certain MIDI files, including many of the files distributed in the RPG Maker Runtime Package, begin with a certain amount of silence. RPG Maker's MIDI player skips the silence at the front of the file and begins playing at the first note immediately. Unfortunately, the SDL_Mixer library used by TURBU does not currently support this feature. This can cause timing problems. Most notably, such songs will not work properly with the Inn routine. This issue has been reported to the SDL developers, and I've requested that the option to skip lead-in silence be added to SDL_Mixer. Until then, it will be necessary to work around this issue by either choosing MIDIs with no lead-in, using the Wait routine in scripts to compensate if music/action synchronization is important, or using other file formats.
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