Hello everybody,
I have a project : make a bridge between RunRev and Macintosh Core Audio/Core
Midi with AppleScript and if successful do benefit the community...
I am searching books, tutorials or “something” (in english or in french [is it
possible to dream ?]) witch talk about working
://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/rMusic11.hqx
http://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/smf2Pmd.hqx
By the way, Does your work allows automatic creation of
music in different styles like the software Band in a Box
or just in one style like Mozart's Musical Dice Game for
Composing a Minuet?
http
to play with, it is like a game for a child (my small-son — yes I am
a grand-father ! — play with it and he is 4) but it is powerful and old many
possibilities.
For my own (pour ma part) my musical projects turn around contemporary music
like american minimalists (John Cage, Morton Felman, Terry
There is an article about Exagofon with mention of RunRev at :
http://createdigitalmusic.com/2010/01/07/put-a-hex-on-you-new-game-crazy-music-sequencer-with-hexagons/#more-8958
Bons souvenirs de Paris
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this line after line 131
if chartonum(char -1 of evList) is 10 then delete char -1 of evList
Playing UDI's sample musics do not use function notes2MidiFile, but
when you make your music you may have a problem.
And sometimes Windows QuickTime plays a big noise when a midi file
starts, put
this line after line 131
if chartonum(char -1 of evList) is 10 then delete char -1 of evList
Playing UDI's sample musics do not use function notes2MidiFile,
but when you make your music you may have a problem.
And sometimes Windows QuickTime plays a big noise when a midi file
starts, put
Hi Kenji,
Kenji Kojima wrote:
[snip]
Yes, UDI's makeSMFLib works on MacOS, Windows and browser.
Yes, it works great inside a browser.
Hopefully, UDI will complete the code for
importing and converting Midi files.
I found the stack Random Music Player
specially interesting and would like
Le 19 oct. 09 à 20:55, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
Yup, stirring the soup again:
http://tilestack.com/stacks/Piano/
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Hi Sir,
You already can do that in Rev with MaestroJunior.
Use the Maestro_Header() function and then play any note
with Maestro( aNote ).
Hello,
Yes there is a BIG latence with Tilestack, too big to play piano...
Bons souvenirs de Paris
René
Le 20 oct. 09 à 08:28, Thierry a écrit :
Le 19 oct. 09 à 20:55, Richmond Mathewson a écrit :
Yup, stirring the soup again:
http://tilestack.com/stacks/Piano/
Indeed, I have a stack with an onscreen keyboard for when Ms. Betancourt's
external worked...
Judy
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Thierry wrote:
Hi Sir,
You already can do that in Rev with MaestroJunior.
Use the Maestro_Header() function and then play any note
with Maestro( aNote ).
Drawing an
Le 20 oct. 09 à 21:07, Judy Perry a écrit :
Indeed, I have a stack with an onscreen keyboard
for when Ms. Betancourt's external worked...
Judy
Hello Judy,
a pointer to this stack ? sharable ?
Thanks,
Thierry
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Thierry wrote:
Hi Sir,
You already can do that in Rev
Thierry wrote:
Le 20 oct. 09 à 21:07, Judy Perry a écrit :
Indeed, I have a stack with an onscreen keyboard
for when Ms. Betancourt's external worked...
Judy
Hello Judy,
a pointer to this stack ? sharable ?
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/resources_shakobox.html. I host the stack
on my
Le 20 oct. 09 à 21:53, J. Landman Gay a écrit :
Thierry wrote:
Le 20 oct. 09 à 21:07, Judy Perry a écrit :
Indeed, I have a stack with an onscreen keyboard
for when Ms. Betancourt's external worked...
Judy
Hello Judy,
a pointer to this stack ? sharable ?
Thierry,
I just emailed you the stack.
Jacquie,
I don't know why I thought that it was broken but indeed it is not! Which
means that my stack should still work :-)
Judy
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Hi All,
Remember that UDI published many stacks
to play Midi music using Quicktime.
And there is a Keyboard, too:
http://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/tool.html
Mac Users should not have problems to
decode all Rev and Zip files encoded as HQX,
but Windows Users without WinZip or
Stuffit Expander
Yup, stirring the soup again:
http://tilestack.com/stacks/Piano/
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Hello,
When I enter on page Test page for PlayMidi,
I read : There was an error loading the revlet - Stack not found.
What append ?
Bons souvenirs de Paris
René
Le 5 sept. 09 à 02:41, Kenji Kojima a écrit :
Hi,
I tried to make a PlayMIDI revlet.
http://www.kenjikojima.com/revlet/PlayMIDI/
dramaticly slow...
When I put RevWeb Player and RevMedia 4.0 in the trash and I loaded
my application with RunRev 3.5 everything is back to normal...
RevMedia 4.0 is inusable for me (music application) !!
Is Revolution Studio 4.0 slower than 3.5 ?
Macintosh PPC MacOs Tiger
Thank you
Bons souvenirs de
Hi,
I tried to make a PlayMIDI revlet.
http://www.kenjikojima.com/revlet/PlayMIDI/
It's based on HyperTalk's PLAY command
http://www.kenjikojima.com/revlet/PlayMIDI/pmd.html
I can play it on MacOS. I have two problems.
1) I cannot show a QuickTime controller on MacOS and Windows. only a
and quicktime is installed in your Windows system?
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San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev
2009/9/4 Kenji Kojima in...@kenjikojima.com
Hi,
I tried to make a PlayMIDI revlet.
http://www.kenjikojima.com/revlet/PlayMIDI/
It's based on
On Sep 4, 2009, at 08:44 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
and quicktime is installed in your Windows system?
Oh! I reinstalled a fresh Windows XP last month.
I think that was the reason.
Thanks,
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http://www.kenjikojima.com/
Hi,
I tried to make a PlayMIDI revlet.
stephen,
I installed QuickTime7 on my Windows.
I could play a MIDI sound and a controller appeared.
I installed QuickTime 10 on my Mac.
The controller problem might be QT version.
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On Sep 4, 2009, at 08:44 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
and
Ouch!
http://tilestack.com/blog/Music_Notes,_New_Instruments__Sound_Channel_Preview
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Hello Richmond,
I I want the same thing in RunRev with the capability playing Midi
instrument implemented into QuickTime synthesizer...
I think it is not very difficult for Revolution to make that...
But what opportunities available to us !!
Bons souvenirs de Paris
René
Le 3 sept. 09 à 16:09,
Woo-hoo
Judy
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Ouch!
http://tilestack.com/blog/Music_Notes,_New_Instruments__Sound_Channel_Preview
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Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto
Judy
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, René Micout wrote:
Hello Richmond,
I I want the same thing in RunRev with the capability playing Midi instrument
implemented into QuickTime synthesizer...
I think it is not very difficult for Revolution to make
Neat, and looks quite powerful.
Trivia quiz time:
Their codename for the next release is 'Trantor' - a free prize of
nothing to the first person to say which SF book series features the
planet Trantor...
Ian
On 3 Sep 2009, at 15:09, Richmond Mathewson
richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Ian Woodrevl...@azurevision.co.uk wrote:
Neat, and looks quite powerful.
Trivia quiz time:
Their codename for the next release is 'Trantor' - a free prize of nothing
to the first person to say which SF book series features the planet
Trantor...
OK, I'll fall
On Sep 3, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:
OK, I'll fall into the nerd trap :-)
Isaac Asimov's Foundation series
Actually, Trantor made its first appearance in Asimov's Pebble in the
Sky which predated the Foundation series.
Joining Sarah in the nerd trap.
t
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What have you got against music ?
René from Paris
Without music the life will be an error Friedrich Nietzsche
Le 18 mars 09 à 23:27, Jim Lambert a écrit :
My 2 cents.
Personally I'd discourage the Rev team from spending time and
resources on developing any native music making function
As in investing in a hosting service...?
Cheers,
Luis.
On 19 Mar 2009, at 00:41, Kay C Lan wrote:
Amen
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Jim Lambert j...@netrin.com wrote:
My 2 cents.
Personally I'd discourage the Rev team from spending time and
resources on
developing any native music
Le 18 mars 09 à 23:01, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
Or does truly cross-platform mean something else? :)
I don't really understand cross-platform concept in Rev ?! What
about sheet and drawer witch are Macintosh only stuff. Why other
Macintosh specificities (is it english ?) are not
René,
Richard is trying to demonstrate to Richmond that Director isn't really
cross-plat.
And I agree FWIW... for what little it is worth ;-)
Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:42 AM, René Micout rmic...@online.fr wrote:
Le 18 mars 09 à 23:01, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
I don't thinks she has anything against music, just thinks this
implementation is stupid.
Just my interpretation, not meant to be a slam against anyone...
Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:17 AM, René Micout rmic...@online.fr wrote:
What have you got against music
:
There are more pressing tasks for them to tackle and the music making
can be accomplished by the rev developer leveraging what multimedia
capabilities are present outside of, yet accessible to, Rev
but taking that to mean 'an all-singing-all-dancing system' like
that in Director; and continuing to state
It's hard to conceive of Rev trying to reCreate what took Apple almost 20
years to develop and it being very good. Quicktime is still the best media
handler ever created. I still remember those early developer CDs and the
little postage-stamp movies that strained the machines, but were amazing.
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
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
main problem is to stop kids clicking away as if they have some sort
of motor disorder while either a program or a media file loads; these
children WANT IT NOW, or, given the chance, even sooner. So
LATENCY of all forms is my bugbear.
A piece of music that takes 10 seconds to load will not get
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
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
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
Luis,
I am an amateur musician, a medium rev developper. I make now
several virtual musical instruments (exagofon, yasarofon, rizomofon)
on Macintosh...
I offer all the help I can provide in relation to the requirements
and my skills.
But I have a disadvantage : english is not my maternal
On 17 th ,march Kurt wrote :
But we still need to create an actual file to be referenced by the
QT player, right?
We cannot, for instance:
set the filename of player MyPlayer to the myMidiData of player
MyPlayer
[where myMididata is a custom property of the player MyPlayer in
on march 18th Louis wrote :
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
bugbear.
A piece of music that takes 10 seconds to load will not get heard.
I believe Colin Holgate's instigated MIDI experiment on Jacques slower
machine using a field (the slow method) as storage revealed a latency of 8.3
MICROseconds. I understood the result indicated that if that was too slow
On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:12 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
I believe Colin Holgate's instigated MIDI experiment on Jacques slower
machine using a field (the slow method) as storage revealed a
latency of 8.3
MICROseconds.
That was just the reading the data from the field. The bigger
slowdown, which
Hello,
From my past message :
...
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...
Is 1/5 seconds (200 milliseconds) is
On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:52 AM, René Micout wrote:
Is 1/5 seconds (200 milliseconds) is too long ?
It might be, depends on the application. For setting some music going,
that would be quite responsive. For someone trying to play a tune,
where you might be playing five notes per second, you
Yes, I agree, to play live is too long...
Le 18 mars 09 à 15:57, Colin Holgate a écrit :
On Mar 18, 2009, at 10:52 AM, René Micout wrote:
Is 1/5 seconds (200 milliseconds) is too long ?
It might be, depends on the application. For setting some music
going, that would be quite responsive
I have just uploaded HCDOORBELL.rev to revOnline; find it under 'Richmond'
This stack contains 3 notes craftily sucked out of a HyperCard stack and
converted into AIFF files.
By altering the WAIT period between notes one can get different effects :)
Download it,
Play with it,
Don't say I
Hi from Paris,
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.
When I wasn't quite so long in the tooth, we used to
make our own music
From the feeling I get about MIDI data rates, I don't think it's
requirements are any more demanding that the very successful libURL, which
is Rev code, so a C++ external is probably overkill. Some work with serial
ports (and USB midi) is needed. It's not trivial, but somebody just needs to
get
Hiya,
I think 'limiting' it to MIDI, although handy in itself, would be no
good when you want to deal with other types of music files/mixing and
_having_ to use QT for that.
Music/sounds are more than just MIDI: mp3, aiff, wav, flac, ogg, etc.
Cheers,
Luis.
On 18 Mar 2009, at 16:15
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My main problem is to stop kids clicking away as if they have some sort
of motor disorder while either a program or a media file loads; these
children WANT IT NOW, or, given the chance, even sooner. So
LATENCY of all forms is my bugbear.
A piece of music that takes 10
hehehe.
Regrettably, I need Rev to make my music.
Judy
http://revined.bllogspot.com
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.frwrote:
Hi from Paris,
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
On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Judy Perry wrote:
But it relies on QT. That could be a deal killer in a non-Mac
instance.
And it requires midi. I don't read or write midi. Do you? Do most?
Something like 64% of machines have QuickTime
Well, since I have Macs, for me, personally, it isn't an issue, but I've
heard from others on this list that they'd really like to be free of QT
dependency.
Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Colin Holgate co...@rcn.com wrote:
On Mar 18, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Judy
Colin Holgate wrote:
Something like 64% of machines have QuickTime
You don't say . . .
However:
1. Runtime Revolution claims to be truly cross-platform.
2. Lists of system requirements that may require end-users to
install other bits and bobs are a guaranteed turn-off.
3. I have a 'funny
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
For RunRev to claim to be truly cross-platform it needs to become
independent of external sources of help, such as Quicktime.
It is. If QuickTime is not installed on Windows, Rev uses WMP instead.
On Linux it uses mplayer. Mac of course requires QT but that's not an
J. Landman Gay wrote:
It is. If QuickTime is not installed on Windows, Rev uses WMP instead.
On Linux it uses mplayer. Mac of course requires QT but that's not an issue.
Recent court cases against Microsoft seem to suggest that that company
may be forced to sell versions of it Operating system
J. Landman Gay wrote:
I'm curious how you'd play back video without a video component installed.
I have a funny feeling that Adobe/MacroMedia Director manages it by itself.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
A Thorn in the flesh is
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
I'm curious how you'd play back video without a video component installed.
I have a funny feeling that Adobe/MacroMedia Director manages it by itself.
You want RR to write an independent, cross-platform, full-featured video
and audio player?
That's a bit like saying Quicktime manages by itself. While Flash is
more of a RAD tool these days, it is at its heart a media playback
engine. Technically, you are correct, but Flash is more the exception
than the rule. Normally video is something provided by the OS.
With that said, you
That's good to know. I probably knew that once upon a time @;-P
Thanks Jacque!
Judy
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On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:44 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
For RunRev to claim to be truly cross-platform it needs to become
Judy wrote :
But it relies on QT. That could be a deal killer in a non-Mac
instance.
And it requires midi. I don't read or write midi. Do you? Do most?
I don't read midi fluently either :-)
But with a function that does the job it is easy. If you need a
function that translate times
J. Landman Gay wrote:
You want RR to write an independent, cross-platform, full-featured video
and audio player? You'd be happy to pay for one, right?
Gosh, must have touched a nerve there. Sorry!
Adobe Director costs $999 (whether that is only single platform or for
both Mac and Win is not
Beat,
Yes, I'd love to see such a thing! Might well tide me over until/if Rev
ever implements such a beast natively :-D
Now we just need sound channels...
Judy
http://revined.blogspot.com
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Beat Cornaz b.cor...@gmx.net wrote:
Judy wrote :
But it relies on
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Runtime Revolution is cross-platform insofar as it can lever components
that are often present on target platforms; it is not 'platforn neutral'
in that it still depends on those components being there, when they are
not a given.
I'm curious how you'd play back video
U, I don't think the $999 Director is for both plats; educationally it
can be had for less.
You might find Director better and more truly cross-plat, but I'm
tentatively certain it doesn't do unix, doesn't do OS-native controls, I was
chewed out by my instructor for my thinking it handled
Louis wrote :
I think 'limiting' it to MIDI, although handy in itself, would be no
good when you want to deal with other types of music files/mixing and
_having_ to use QT for that.
Music/sounds are more than just MIDI: mp3, aiff, wav, flac, ogg, etc.
I agree. Limiting to midi would
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Adobe Director costs $999 (whether that is only single platform or for
both Mac and Win is not clear)
Runtime Revolution costs $499
about half the 'hit'.
No, I don't; but some people on this use-list seem unaware of what
it takes both in terms of money and work to
On 19/03/09 9:01 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
Exercise for the reader: write a script editor in Director (heck, try
writing any good text editor in Director).
Well you may not get far, but at least your dog of an effort will have
paragraph level formatting.
Terry...
My 2 cents.
Personally I'd discourage the Rev team from spending time and
resources on developing any native music making function, especially
one as primitive as that in HyperCard.
There are more pressing tasks for them to tackle and the music making
can be accomplished by the rev
But i think that midi is a totally different sort of animal than
sounds. Midi are just instructions and the sounds you'll be hearing
are dependend on the soundmodule, syntheziser, midi instrument or
whatever thing that will receive your midi commands. As sounds, well
everybody knows what sounds
Amen
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Jim Lambert j...@netrin.com wrote:
My 2 cents.
Personally I'd discourage the Rev team from spending time and resources on
developing any native music making function, especially one as primitive as
that in HyperCard.
There are more pressing tasks
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Kurt Kaufman kkauf...@snet.net wrote:
You could compare vector (draw) graphics to MIDI, and bitmapped (paint)
graphics to sound.
Nnnoo! Now some nostalgic is going to want to know why the glory days of
B/W PICT images in HC aren't cross platform supported
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 5:50 AM, Judy Perry katheryn.swynf...@gmail.comwrote:
Ummm, geee... thanks Richmond.
Now we're never going to get scripted music sound channels, and when
somebody asks why, these links will be reposted as state's, er, company's
evidence.
;-)
I'd hate to say
have a cheap Chinese doorbell replete with seven
nauseating jingles I can listen to to my heart's content).
However, on my computer I have a Hypercard stack called Folk Tunes,
it is referenced here:
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/CC/SW/HyperCard/TeachHC/reference/hcref.html
under Music
(although
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Embedding music files in RunRev / MetaCard stacks comes at quite a hit,
both in terms of file size, and RAM requirements; the HyperCard method
would be considerably 'cheaper' in both of these respects.
MIDI, with QuickTime in a player object.
--
Richard Gaskin
Hi Richard,
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Embedding music files in RunRev / MetaCard stacks comes at quite a
hit,
both in terms of file size, and RAM requirements; the HyperCard
method
would be considerably 'cheaper' in both of these respects.
MIDI, with QuickTime in a player object.
Yep
On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
MIDI, with QuickTime in a player object.
Yep!
Alas, if we just could use internal/imported files within a player
object...
Well, I wasn't fully sure this would work, but it seems to (the first
two lines just clear out the previous midi
Hi Colin,
On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
MIDI, with QuickTime in a player object.
Yep!
Alas, if we just could use internal/imported files within a player
object...
Well, I wasn't fully sure this would work, but it seems to (the
first two lines just clear out the
On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
This VERY old trick does not count as playing internal files in a
player object!
Sorry you're out :-D
I don't feel bad, having worked it all out for myself, without knowing
that it was an old trick! But what counts as an internal file? If
Hi Colin,
On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
This VERY old trick does not count as playing internal files in a
player object!
Sorry you're out :-D
I don't feel bad, having worked it all out for myself, without
knowing that it was an old trick!
Sorry, did not mean to
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
If I can get those to play, would that count as a new trick?
YOU BET! :-D
The those I was referring to would have been external files that are
in the standalone bundle. I'm not sure how a file player can play
media if you're not allowed
Hi Colin,
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
If I can get those to play, would that count as a new trick?
YOU BET! :-D
The those I was referring to would have been external files that
are in the standalone bundle.
I'm not sure how a file player can play media if you're not
the
central question is, What sorts of sounds would one want to play?
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.
For music that leaves
out here, they are nt as easy to control as externally
referenced media files.
---
The reason I would like to see the ability to manipulate sounds
inside RunRev as they once were in HyperCard is that it would
allow users to pump out music
On Mar 17, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
What's the downside of playing it as a file?
Latency.
The MIDI file is already playing before I notice that the file dialog
has gone away, so that's fairly fast. What kind of thing might you
want to do that would show latency?
Re: MIDI as external file...
Just thinking...
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
Kurt
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Hello,
From my previous message (03/13/2009)
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...
René from Paris
Le 17 mars
On Mar 17, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
Just thinking...
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
I don't know about storing custom properties, but whatever that is,
would it have any advantage over storing the data in a field?
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
I don't know about storing custom properties, but whatever that is,
would it have any advantage over storing the data in a field?
From the Rev User Guide:
A custom property is a property that you define. You can create as
On Mar 17, 2009, at 4:05 PM, Kurt Kaufman wrote:
I do believe that since MIDI files contain binary data, the Rev
field object is not the proper type of container.
MIDI can contain any binary value, but the technique does work, the
saved out MIDI file plays fine. So presumably fields cope
How about storing MIDI data as a custom property in a substack?
Even if this is done, you still need to copy the binary data contained
in the custom property to a temporary MIDI file (invisible if
desired), to which the the player's filename is assigned. According
to the 3.0 User Guide,
MIDI can contain any binary value, but the technique does work, the
saved out MIDI file plays fine. So presumably fields cope with null
values just like variables do.
Is there a chance that the field-stored data might run into trouble if
you, say, saved the data on a Mac and reopened it on a
According
to the 3.0 User Guide, audio/video QT players must always reference a
discreet file.
Actually, even if it's not so discreet, it still has to be discrete!
:-)
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Colin Holgate wrote:
I don't know about storing custom properties, but whatever that is,
would it have any advantage over storing the data in a field?
Yes, a lot of advantages. One is speed, another is the ability to store
any kind of data including binary. Once you start using custom
...Custom
properties can store whole files or applications, images, arrays,
SSL-encoded data, fonts, entire databases, almost anything you can
think of
But we still need to create an actual file to be referenced by the QT
player, right?
We cannot, for instance:
set the filename of
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