My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Judy Perry]

Sorry, dogs ran across my keyboard and prematurely sent my email.  Rats!
 Too bad chihuahuas can't read...
Okay, Kurt:

I like your stack!  I really do.  And while I know you have confidence that
we can all be natively reading and writing MIDI-spec code in no time, I'm
just WAYYYY too old for that to be happening anytime soon.  ;-)

So, yeah, I want that nice 80s/90s-style ease of coding music.  Because I
and anyone who's ever played a musical instrument for even a year or three
can immediately grasp

play flute "e3q" etc.

Jeez, even my CS majors who've NEVER played an instrument can grasp that!

But few to none of them read MIDI natively ;-)

For the PC users here (does that include you, Richmond??)  there's also ABC
Code, which looks to be post-HC and kinda modelled on it:

http://www.music-notation.info/en/formats/abc.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_2165625_abc-music-notation-sheet-music.html

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/morris/music/wwwdance.html

http://abc.sourceforge.net/

[notation formats in general:
http://www.music-notation.info/en/compmus/notationformats.html]

I still like HC's best, tho'!

Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com




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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