MaLa background music LOUD

[ParryPerson]

When I try to move the slider for the background music (sub I guess?) the one slider slides down, I load a game, and it's super quiet.
I exit MAME, then go back to MaLa, and now the Master Volume has been slid down to match the "sub" volume. Does the background music not have a level?
If not, how can I match it's volume to be anywhere close to what MAME plays at now? The majority of the games are much quieter than MaLa's background music level, leading to ear bleeding and screaming when exiting a game currently 

Any help would be great!

A little of topic, but how resource heavy is MaLa? It seems like MAME is needing a lot more frameskipping when I run it, which is a shame because it's beautiful.

[BadMouth]

A little of topic, but how resource heavy is MaLa? It seems like MAME is needing a lot more frameskipping when I run it, which is a shame because it's beautiful.

dunno about the sound, but I've never noticed any difference in the performance of games when launched via Mala vs launched directly.
Even the ones that are just barely running 100% don't seem to run any differently.

I don't use the background music (just the sound from the video previews).
Not sure if that makes any difference.

[dkersten]

Can't answer the sound, but I have had a lot of issues with Mala ignoring some settings in mame.ini, so that could be where your performance issues are coming from.  I can go into mame.ini and change a value and it gets ignored if I launch from mala, but launching from anywhere else works fine.  And using the mala config for mame has options that no longer matter and I think when you change options there it just tries to add them to the command line when launching mame, because it doesn't seem to modify the mame.ini.  Might work with slightly older versions of mame though, couldn't say for sure.