Thank you. I understand that "Who wants (feature)?" is a very general request. In this instance I was probing for feedback on the exact same questions you're asking, which the developers of Flashcoders gave.
To sum up directly, there were a few areas covered in these conversations: Developers would like to build MIDI dynamically through low level commands and then play it. If it would bloat the filesize of the Flash Player, then simply add the ability to play a flat MIDI file loaded from a server. Then to be dynamic, allow that same loadMidi method to load from an internal binaryArray as the AS 3 Loader class allows. Then individual applications take on the filesize of sequencing MIDI instead of the player itself. The last wish which I know very little about is to offer an interface to see the MIDI devices on the users OS and to connect and communicate with them (with the users permission, like a webcam). The Flash Player shouldn't care what the device is, as long the user is notified. Developers would also love to have some sort of buffer in which they could manipulate sound waves directly (binary data in FP8.5) and have it streamed out to the OS as Flash does with sound files. Once again, just a Loaderconcept of playing files from a binaryArray seems like it would add very little to the file size. I don't know the costs of these solutions and I am just one opinion on this list. I didn't hear anything on the list about a simple api or make it easy to handle these powerful abilities. I personally would rather see the Player size kept to a minimum, even it it meant I had to do a lot of custom development in ActionScript. AS Libraries would be built to make it available for the common man I'm sure. But the abilities have to be there first so users aren't forced to download/install 3rd party plugins. Thats my say, for what it's worth. Tyler On 12/14/05, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tyler Wright wrote: > > This conversation has now been posted to http://codext.xtyler.com/code/2 > > I've posted a summary along with a direct quote of the entire > conversation > > which I hope will continue to receive contributions. If everyone > approves, > > I'll send it off to MM, though I know they also keep up in the > Flashcoders > > list and have perhaps already most of this. > > 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 > > I know that MIDI or Beatnik or other audio-via-instructions has been on > the wishlist for awhile, although specific wishes vary in the amount of > the General MIDI spec they need, and wishes vary in how much of a player > download effect they'd accept. > > > > I'd like to take a poll. Do you think MIDI should be included > > in the Flash Player? Why or why not? I want both votes and > > opinions as I'll organize the results and send them off to > > "Adobe, formerly known as Macromedia". Please respond with > > some sort of opinion whether it's pro or con. > > Hmm, that sounds sort of mom-and-apple-pie... who would *not* want a new > ability? The big questions are precisely which abilities under that > general "midi" label most people actually want most, and what they'd be > willing to pay for it, in terms of slower audience adoption or greater > disparity across devices or whatever....? > > jd > > > > > -- > John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd > Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
