Music/sounds in Revolution

[René Micout]

Hello everybody, (excuse me for my english by advance)
The reading of recent interventions about music and sounds, where  
Judy was hight the flag of claims (claims are not a first step  
towards "revolution" ?) leads me to a point on the oppotunities witch  
are give to us : I will leave aside the sounds mamangement witch, I  
think, can easely be resolved from the moment that music production  
wil be resolved. Some like Judy concern are "composed" pieces of  
music as HyperCard. In this case we have excellent tools like  
Shakobox (more precisely SBplay, SBstartNote and SBstopNote commands  
of Jon Bettencour) or  "pmd" of "UDI" and his extension of Hypertalk  
command's, and if we want to explore MIDI, the excellent MIDI Builder  
of Kurt Kaufman.
All this tools have their downside : Shakobox need a third party  
application "PlayCommand Agent" (Revolution + AppleScript on Mac +  
PlayCommand Agent + QT synthesizer) and has limitations especially in  
terms of time management. However it is possible to "play live" with  
SBstartNote and SBstopNote commands.
Pmd and MIDI Builder have a common disadvantage : we cannot "Play  
live" because of principle : create a MIDI file witch is play by QT  
player, resulting in a latency of at least 1/5 seconds at the start  
of the file...
For myself, I have 2 needs (requirements ?) : 1. Create MIDI file to  
export sequencies to Logix by example. 2. Generate MIDI command  
(notes by example) directly to QT synthesizer. The first requirement  
is satisfy with a little tool that I have to make in large part with  
help of Kurt Kaufman :-), for the second, I do, for the moment, with  
SBplay, SBstartNote and SBstopNote of Jon Bettencourt use by  
Shakobox. There is few month, Jacqueline say (write) to me that  
PlayCommand Agent [PCA] was write with RealBasic. I don't use  
RealBasic... But, maybe one of us use RealBasic and put au  
disposition le RealBasic code's of PCA so it can be "translated" ans  
rewritten in Transcript... and improved and expanded to meet needs  
like mine... Pending Revolution implements natively equivalent  
commands... It exists in SuperCard, so...
Bons souvenirs de Paris
René