My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Judy Perry]

You know, Kurt, I LIKE your stack.. but despite your claim that anytime soon
I'll natively be reading and writing MIDI-spec code, I really think I'm
WAAYYYYYY

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Kurt Kaufman <kkaufman at snet.net> wrote:

> ...It is Shakobox on Jacque's site developed by Rebecca Bettancourt that
>> utilizes the QT library.  If you've got a Mac, great.  No sound channels
>> but
>> you kinda fake them.  It requires an external player that has been
>> opensourced and so, if you know RB, you might be able to fiddle with it
>> further.  If you don't have a Mac, you're kinda out of luck AFAIK  because
>> while there is a Windows version, I've never actually come across anyone
>> who
>> was able to make it work under Windows....
>>
>
>
> If QT is present on Windows, you can call up the instruments (or whatever
> MIDI voices are found on the PC -depends on the particular flavor of
> Windows) by sending them MIDI instructions.  In MIDI-Builder this is done by
> playing a short MIDI file for each note.  It doesn't involve resampling
> sound resources, and, as a result, you don't end up with distortion of
> timbre and length when the sound is transposed more than a few pitches up or
> down. Instead of sound channels, you use MIDI tracks.
>
> BUT,
> if what you're looking for is "that late 80s/early 90s click'n'pop
> Macintosh sound-chip feel"  (you know what I mean!), MIDI probably won't cut
> it.
> :-)
>
> Kurt
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