Hi Irv,
I've never had to do a "musical" project yet, but I'll go with my gut
feeling and say use the timeOut objects.
Definitely not QT cuepoints. I've had a nightmare experience with those when
I had to synch spot lights (the fading up and down of) with an Mpeg
projection. I went through the Mpeg and put in the cue points, one by one,
and everything was working fine. Then, after installation, I found out that
the lights were completely out of synch. After laborious trial and plenty of
error, I found out why: When I was putting in the cuepoints, the machine was
using an Mpeg card. Then the tech department changed that to software Mpeg,
which was for some reason more stable - and that threw the whole thing
completely out of synch (don't ask me WHY!). I tried changing the Mpeg
Xtra's settings, but to no avail. In the end, I had to go in and put the
cuepoints in again. But the STILL didn't work very well, until I converted
them to a list of cuepoint times, and only then they worked.
Is that enough to deter you? ;)
I don't know about Beatnik, and Audio cuepoints may or may not work out, but
I think that if you want a steady metronomical beat the timeOut objects will
give you as much precision as you can get from director, and also the most
flexibility (such as changing the timing of the beat). I've been using
timeOuts quite extensively recently, and if you approach them as objects
(ie, always dispose of them...) you won't have too much trouble (not as
much, anyway).
It also sounds like the new sound objects can be a great help for what
you're planning to do.
Hope that sheds some light on the subject :)
Karina
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