Are your note names working? If so which version of SVP are you using and on what Mac and which OS? I'm running a couple 9600 machines anywhere from System 7 to OS8.6. I should probably go test on OS9 but I think that's probably what you've got running yourself.
I have fresh installs of 7.6.1 and 8.6, no other fonts installed except the ones required to run Vision. When I install them I put both formats of Aloisen into the folder. What's ATM?
No, my note names do NOT work in the pop-up. I never gave it much thought because I never change them. I made a note names document with the drum assigns to display in the pulse window in the order I like - kick on the bottom, crashes on top - and then I tweak the kit in Galaxy+ on a song by song basis.
I use 4.5.1 in OS 9.2.2
Aloisen is the music notation font and has nothing to do with this. The possibly "missing" font(s) I'm talking about would be original Mac system fonts.Those reside in the System Fonts Folder and are called by apps as needed. They're called for by number - NOT by name and there was a long-term cluster f**k for a while in the late evolution of the Mac OS with crazy-fast development of new fonts from Adobe, Aldus and others. There was a fight over FONT and FOND numbers. I think SVP is calling a Font that's not present OR it's calling a font in a
size that's not present and the system is trying to substitute a Truetype scalable font which would be fine if SVP would accept it, BUT I think the SVP code may pre-date wide adoption of scalable fonts, period. It is a DAW after all without much need for advanced font handling in most areas since it doesn't print much stuff. Since that would have been fixed in an update that didn't happen, instead of text in the pop-up you get an ellipsis, which folks often programmed to appear if a font couldn't be found or (more often) was too big or small for the space. I am not forgetting that in a few areas, such as in the counter window, SVP will call any font installed without issue - I just think maybe they didn't get around to updating the note name pop-up.
I'm thinking this is a decent guess since we know it at least worked somewhere along the line - we've seen it on U-Tube! So, it's less likely that a bug just suddenly appeared and caused this than it can't find the font it wants.
So, this is pure guesswork and may be dead on or not even close. testing the theory will require researching exactly which fonts could even be possible in the space (I thinking very small Geneva or similar sans-serif types), identifying them and trial-and-error installing them in a system to see if you get lucky.
