Two sounds at the same time!?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Scott,

> Recently, Klaus Major wrote:
>
>> there was once a commercial external for MetaCard named
>> "EXT.dll" (sic!) which had been
>> created and sold by a small scottish company named "Cross Worlds
>> Computing" about 5 or 6
>> years ago.
>>
>> I bought one because it had some very nifty features for windows, for
>> example (besides other
>> nice things) un-/loading of a font on the fly and support for up to 4
>> soundchannels, so we
>> could play up to 4 (FOUR, maybe more, i don't remember...) sounds at
>> the same time without
>> the use of QuickTime.
>
> I remember this and could never get it work.  Tuviah Snyder (who I  
> believe
> authored most if not all of the external) told me at the time that the
> feature was created based on some experimentation on various  
> computers but
> was never developed/tested as a real-world solution for all  
> situations.

Aha, very interesting, but it worked on my pc at that time! Lucky me :-)

> (At that time I was using SndChannel that provided similar  
> functionality for
> pre-OSX systems.)
>
> But times have changed, computers have moved forward, and Rev's audio
> capabilities desperately need to move forward as well. So whether  
> its the
> Rev guys themselves or a third party company, *any* development  
> effort that
> brings more advanced audio features to Rev would be very welcome.

That's true!

> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
> -----
> E: scott at tactilemedia.com
> W: http://www.tactilemedia.com

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de