HC Music that should be on Runtime Revolution

[Luis]

Hiya,

On which side?...  :)

Cheers,

Luis.


On 18 Mar 2009, at 12:00, René Micout wrote:

> Hello Luis,
> I am interessed by this project
> René from Paris
>
> Le 18 mars 09 à 12:36, Luis a écrit :
>
>> 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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