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- From: worc0223@news.ox.ac.uk (Benjamin Hutchings)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: MIDI + C + AMIGA ??
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 15:50:07 GMT
- Organization: Oxford University, England
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- Hans Guijt (hguijt@inter.NL.net) wrote:
- [...]
- : Since MIDI is just samples playing on some soundchip somewhere, wouldn't it
- : be possible to play MIDI directly on the Amiga soundchip? Delitracker would
- : be the perfect platform for such a thing: the internal noteplayers support
- : up to 32 channels of independent sound, more than enough for most MIDI
- : applications, and samples for these channels can be stored in fastram so
- : memory should not be an objection.
-
- : Some of us don't want to control instruments - we just want to listen to all
- : those cool songs without having to buy an expensive MIDI device!
-
- Isn't this the principle of Standard MIDI Files, as widely used on PCs? Each
- soundcard has samples/synthsounds for each of the "standard" instruments used
- in the MIDI files. The trouble is, what sounds great on one sound card may
- sound very different on another with a rather different interpretation of what
- the instruments should sound like. Perhaps this would be a useful feature for
- OctaMED 7 if that isn't set in stone yet (it is currently in testing, I hear).
-
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