But when using sequnceXtra to play a midi file... Where do the midi
notes go? You can't make it play samples that are stored in your .dir
or .dxr can you?
-Andreas
>At 10:38 AM -0400 5/2/01, Roy Pardi wrote:
>>At 7:25 AM -0700 5/2/2001, Irv Kalb wrote:
>>>I'll guess I'll answer my own question. Bought it, downloaded it,
>>>got it started, ran into some difficulties, wrote SourceForce,
>>>they wrote me back within hours with the solution, and now my
>>>program is running fine. I'd give that experience a huge thumbs
>>>up!
>>>
>>
>>
>>Hi Irv,
>>
>>I imagine you have already looked at and rejected Beatnik for some
>>reason. Wondering why. I was able to have it play midi files fine.
>>
>
>Hey Roy,
>
>Yes, your assumption is correct. I first tried to use Beatnik - and
>rejected it. Here's the history.
>
>I am trying to build a children's music game where kids can create a
>song by indicating on a staff a series of notes they want to play
>(quarter notes, half notes, whole notes, and rests). When they are
>happy with what they have built, they can press a "Play" button to
>play their song. They can go back and make changes and hit the play
>button as many times as they wish. So, the basic idea is that I
>need to be able to build a song on the fly.
>
>In order to play music on the fly, I first went the route of
>building up timing using a timer object and attempted to play back
>the notes whenever I got a call back from the timeout object. Then
>we decided to use Beatnik for synthesized notes so we didn't have to
>get recorded notes from different instruments. But, while the
>timout object called me back a regular intervals, when I used
>Beatnik to play the notes, the resulting sound timing was just not
>right. Instead of a strong beat, boom, boom, boom, boom, some were
>longer and some were shorter, boom, booom, booom, bom, bom, boooom,
>etc. We then tried eliminated Beatnik and tried a series of
>recorded notes to see if the timing issue was in Beatnik or in
>Director. It turns out that the timing problem occurred with both
>Beatnik and just using puppetSounds.
>
>My next attempt was to use the new D8 sound object. I figured I
>could create a "playlist" of notes and just tell the sound object to
>play the song. However, there is a serious bug in D8 (admitted to
>by Macromedia) that play lists do not work correctly for short
>sounds. I told the sound object to play 8 notes, and we hear seven.
>But it's non-deterministic, you can never correctly how it's going
>to fail. I was excited about the Director 8.5 release because I
>heard that this bug was fixed in 8.5. Well, good news, bad news.
>The good news is that the timing issue was indeed fixed in 8.5. I
>now build up a play list of notes, and when I play it, the timing
>works out perfectly. A very strong beat. The bad news is that when
>it transitions from one note to the next, there is a highly audible
>"click". Since this game is to be used in association with a
>symphony orchestra, the client felt that this "click" was
>unacceptable.
>
>So, back to the drawing board. Finally, I got the idea of creating
>a MIDI song on the fly. In researching this, I found that the
>Sequence XTRA from SourceForce allows us Director folks to create a
>MIDI song (using lists) and then play it back. The result is a
>combination of perfect timing with no "clicks".
>
>So, the short answer to your question is, whiile Beatnik will
>certainly play MIDI songs perfectly well, it has no facility for
>creating MIDI in Lingo. The Sequence XTRA has the capability the
>create and playback MIDI songs on the fly in Lingo.
>
>Irv
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>
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