HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

[René Micout]

Judy,
In a previous message (no response at this time) I write : about  
rewriting PlayCommandAgent from RealBasic to Transcript (an  
idea... ?), and it is not necessary MIDI (but, I think, the solution  
need CoreAudio (QuickTime ?) (for Mac) and equivalent for Windows and  
Linux :

"...
For myself, I have 2 needs (requirements ?) : 1. Create MIDI file to  
export sequencies to Logic 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“ and  
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

Le 18 mars 09 à 11:53, Judy Perry a écrit :

> I certainly wasn't offended.
> As for the age of the "young children," well, mine are nearly 8.  They
> desperately want a cell phone but aren't getting one anytime  
> soon.  ;-)
>
> Yes, they *would* notice latency.
>
> As you say, Kay, in the old days when we all weren't quite so long  
> in tooth,
> we could all roll our own.  In HC, I could roll my own tunes  
> without having
> to know the midi spec and with only knowing how to read  
> sheetmusic.  And I
> could have sound channels.  And without having to use Player Objects,
> layered or not.  Without latency. Without QuickTime.  On the sorts  
> of older
> machines I trust my wee ones with (not mine certainly!).
>
> And now, none of that's possible and FOR NO GOOD REASON.  No good  
> reason.
>
> Again, the problem with MIDI is this:  (a) it requires learning the  
> MIDI
> spec; (b) it requires QT dependency.  It isn't clean and elegant  
> and it
> isn't internal.  And it still doesn't really deal with the sound  
> channel
> issue.
>
> But I'll gratefully accept and support and help pay for an external  
> that
> does help in these areas.
>
> Judy
> http://revined.blogspot.com