Skink uses the MIDI support in the Java Media Framework for playback. At the moment it creates a sequence on the fly and creates MIDI note on/note off events on the sequence,
then starts the sequencer when the tune is finished. If there are multiple tunes, it will do that for each tune. Exporting MIDI should be straightforward, but I have a few other things to do first. Glad you like the error handling - it's a bit different, no? wil Forgeot Eric wrote: > >>Eric> it still has problem with the sound, > > >Have you tried the latest version (that just came out last week)? > I > >still have problems playing in Linux, but I didn't hit any > problems on > >Windows in the small amount of testing I did there. > > Of course I did :) I'll always check new version of any program. > For the sound, on MSwindows I have the java version recommended, > and I have sound, but it's not fluid at all, music slows down and > then speeds up. > It may come from my computer that is not powerfull enought (350 > Mhz), I don't know, but if it's the case, so many pple may have > the same pb. > I know AbcMus and Abacus are quickly converting the abc to midi > before reading the midi file, so there is not this sort of > problem. (Will it be possible on Abacus in the future to play > (roughtly) notes when you enter them ?) > I've downloaded on a friend's computer who have the adsl the > newest java from sun for windows and linux. When I'll grab them, > I'll try skink with this, it will maybe better. > Otherwise, I do appreciate much the fact it doesn't stop any > longer for code it doesn't understand, so we can see the other > tunes (and often the tune incriminated if this is a minor error it > detects.) It even helped me to find syntax error in my tunes. > > Concerning Iabc, it's the same, it works better now it don't > process all the tunes in a tunebook, but processes only the tune > we want to display. (Abacus should do the same, since it's > instable with some code it doesn't understand, but on the other > hand it's less sensitive than skink was) > Someone said there was a pb with the time signature for iabc, it > is always 4/4, it's strange because there was not this problem in > the previous version. > > For both Iabc and Abacus, the fact we have to use a subwindow is > less powerfull than the list in Skink, this one is always > displayed. I've just seen we can even browse the tune with the up > and down arrows, so it's a pleasure to use it for this purpose. > You can select several continuous tunes with shift, or individual > tunes with ctrl, it's very conveniant, and then you can make a > sort of playlist for printing, playing etc.. On Abacus it's true > it's quick to open the tunelist with ctrl+o , but if you select a > tune with the arrows, you can't validate with enter... > > I'll test Iabc on Linux as soon as possible, but on MSwindows it > has the habit to crash badly the whole system, often when you open > a second file after a first one, so it's better to close Iabc > between two files (I've tested Iabc on 2 computer with Mswindows98 > and it's the same pb) > > Back to Abacus, I've just tryied to create a tune with it, and it > crashed (I made a mistake and entered Q:1/48=120 instead of 1/8) > so I've lost my tune :( Could it save the abc tune before crashing > ? > > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en français ! > Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com > To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: >http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
