I'll give a hint :)
- Don't include default General Midi Bank (that'd be at least 1-2 MB to
sound reasonable, so it's out of question, that's like bundling fonts in the
player, pointless), just provide the engine and some sort of
instrument/patch format we can load
- This is similar to the MOD/XM "mod players" from the old days, they are
basically light music synths that you load with patches and they have some
realtime processing of the patch, like layering multiple samples, LFO (low
frequency oscilation), ADSR envelope (attack, decay, sustain, release),
vibrato/tremolo, velocity, panning.
- A simple MOD/XM engine (or subset) can fit in something like 20kb or less
(honestly, I'm talking real implementations here), and with lots of the
audio stuff abstracted in these modern OS days you can squeeze even more
from it maybe.
Regards, Stan Vassilev
Thanks. In the recent rush I haven't been able to read "Who wants MIDI?"
much less abstract it.
Were you able to get a sense from the whole list of (a) which specific
MIDI (or MIDI-like) features & implementations are most desired; and (b)
how much they'd be willing to pay for this in player size?
Do you know what size of MIDI engine would work best for you, for which
MIDI abilities, for instance?
Anyone also know the link the the MM wish list?
Searching "macromedia wish list" pulls up
http://www.macromedia.com/go/wish
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