On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com>wrote:
> I'd risk the same for you if ever anyone dared to question your > character while I'm around. You're my SoCal homey; I got yer back. :) > Someone would have to work very hard to prove to me that you've ever been > dishonest with me, and until such proof I'm obliged by principle to presume > your honesty. --Hey homie -- I've got your back too! > > If we may politely move forward, back to the beeps at hand: > > > In recent discussion here I finally joined the converts on the value of > sound channels for certain types of playback. While I don't need them > myself right now, I can see where others would. > > It might be nice to have this in the engine, but evidently Kevin has > found no greater persuasion than Raney on this, so perhaps it would make > a great external. --Agreed. And I have hope. I have a wee bit more than hope actually. > > > In fact, the nature of the commands needed would seem to lend themselves > well to the externals API, independent as they are of the rendering > buffer, event loop, and other sticky things (though Chris Bonnert did > such a good job with AltBrowser that maybe those things are only sticky > for me <g>). > > This seems an excellent undertaking for any of the folks here with a C > compiler and a passion for this this sort of audio playback. Might even > make a good RevSelect product when it's done, and if some of the folks > who need it would be willing to prepay to have it written, it seems a > zero-risk option for someone to take it on. > > One question about it: why stop at two channels? Four seems infinitely > more useful; "Sgt. Pepper" was recorded in four tracks, so close to > anything should be possible with that number. :) Is there anything > technically which would restrict this to two channels on modern systems? --I agree. HC had 8. I want no less ;-) > > > This morning you wrote: > > Which is why we're all still talking about it years later... which is why >> Rebecca Bettancourt made a hack a few years ago to allow some of us to do >> what it is that you are saying you want to do (and you're obviously not >> alone, even if you're traveling in a very small herd). >> > > If we're talking about a behavior that was native to HC, was Ms. > Bettencourt's "hack" for Rev? I didn't know she uses Rev. --You don't remember Shakobox? See Jacque's site. I'm not being rude in this; you really don't remember Shakobox? I even recently d/l RB to take a look at its source code because it seems it's slowly breaking... but, not being a real programmer, I gave up after an hour or so :*-( Judy http://revined.blogspot.com > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > Revolution training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution