My BBC Master - - - getting Beeped-off.

[Judy Perry]

Richmond,
As I had never neard of BBC master, with out without beeps, I didn't quite
catch this thread when it first popped up.

I don't think HC leveraged QT musical instrument library.  It instead did
something with a single sampled sound that was modified to produce the
various pitches.

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.

Hopefully, *somebody* out there is working on a better solution (hint,
hint)!

Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson <geradamas at yahoo.com>wrote:

>
> In the middle of the night I awoke with "beep" in my head;
>
> and so looked up:
>
> beepPitch
>
> getting all excited as I did so . . .
>
> popped this into a button:
>
> on mouseUp
> set the beepPitch to 220
> beep
> set the beepPitch to 440
> beep
> end mouseUp
>
> I don't know what the value of 'beep' is at all as heard no beeps!
>
> this is also pretty fatuous:
>
> "The beepPitch has no effect and does not report a meaningful value on Mac
> OS or Windows systems, and on some Unix systems which don't allow changing
> the beep pitch."
>
> as is this:
>
> "The beepDuration has no effect on Mac OS or Windows systems, and on some
> Unix systems which don't allow changing the beep length."
>
> which we can paraphrase as;
>
> "beeps can only be mucked around with on one or two extremely obscure
> operating systems, so we are not really sure why we mentioned 'beep' at
> all."
>
> this was the thing that really took the biscuit:
>
> "Overuse of the beep command has been known to cause user stress."
>
> in fact, I am still picking the crumbs from between my teeth :)
>
> A real pity really, as that would have meant I could start composing
> crappy computer music with RunRev rather than BBC BASIC.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> About 23-4 years ago, in Scotland, I used to listen to a programme on
> the wireless by a "Hank Wangford" called "In Search of the Lonesome
> Yodel"; feeling like that now!
>
> Hey, wait a minute:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Wangford
>
> http://www.hankwangford.com/hanks_page.html
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
>
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