HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

[Luis]

Hiya,

If there isn't going to be an 'internal' version forthcoming from  
RunRev anytime soon, why not create a user group bounty system for an  
external?

- Anyone up to the task would propose their 'bounty'
OR
- A community set bounty which developers would then vie for

These could be community, developer or RunRev managed.

Cheers,

Luis.


On 18 Mar 2009, at 10:53, Judy Perry wrote:

> 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
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Kay C Lan  
> <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:58 PM, Richard Gaskin <
>> ambassador at fourthworld.com
>>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> While referring to HC's notation as "door bell jingles" may sound
>> derisive,
>>> these days when people are accustomed to richer sound design,  
>>> it's not an
>>> entirely unfair characterization to the modern ear.
>>>
>>
>> Nice pun;-) And certainly I didn't mean to offend anyone, as I  
>> think I
>> said,
>> "I'm wondering", as in I'm trying to figure this out, I've used  
>> sound files
>> in Rev and have been more than happy with the results; I just  
>> can't seem to
>> grasp what it is I'm missing out on.
>>
>> Three phones ago I could create my own ringtone by typing in HC like
>> notation and saving the file. The web was full of text snippets of  
>> the
>> appropriate code for the appropriate make of phone so you could  
>> quickly
>> type
>> in and have you own personal version of "rape of the moonlight  
>> sonata" ;-)
>>
>> Today I can't even find those text snippets anymore because  
>> everything has
>> moved onto mp3 files. Three phones ago I could roll my own*, today  
>> it's not
>> so simple - you still can, but you need to use some third party  
>> software
>> (GarageBand) to create your mp3 - and it certainly wont sound as  
>> good as an
>> mp3 of a real artist. Most people will see this as progress, some may
>> consider they've lost something.
>>
>> Judy's reference to children not likely noticing the sound quality I
>> suspect
>> must be referring to very young children because all the fifth  
>> graders at
>> my
>> wife's school all have the latest pop songs blasting out their  
>> iPhones when
>> somebody rings, they seem to be very image concscious.
>>
>> If the children are that young not to notice the quality, then  
>> isn't it
>> possible that they wouldn't notice the latency mentioned with the  
>> MIDI
>> solution.
>>
>> Still wondering why external, as put forward by Richard way back  
>> at the
>> beginning, isn't the correct answer?
>>
>> *Roll my own in this case refers to creating an original ringtone,  
>> not the
>> art/crime of splicing up a file in your iTunes library or copy/ 
>> sharing such
>> a file.
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