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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: cs.vu.nl!sun4nl!hguijt
- From: hguijt@inter.NL.net (Hans Guijt)
- Subject: Re: MIDI + C + AMIGA ??
- Message-ID: <DMMMwu.B5G@inter.NL.net>
- Organization: NLnet
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- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:46:05 GMT
-
- <keith@innov.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >> Since MIDI is just samples playing on some soundchip somewhere
- >
- >No, no, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!
- >
- >That is INCORRECT.
- >
- >WRONG.
- >
- >NOT RIGHT.
- >
- >MIDI commands send note on and off info to the synthesiser which uses this
- >to determine which notes to play. On some synths, these are just sound
- >samples, but in the vast majority the sounds are synthesised (perhaps based
- >around samples, but with much additional processing involved).
-
- I don't care how it works. I want to play those songs, on my desktop no
- less.
-
- Everybody is always complaining that playing MIDI files on the Amiga is
- impossible for some magic reason. It's just sound people! If we had a bunch
- of good samples (easily found), a good channel mixer (such as the one in
- Delitracker), and some code to interpret the file format we could play them
- as well as any other guy!
-
- -----
-
- NEWS FLASH! As of this week Aminet contains a program called GMPlay0_9.lha,
- which can be used to play general MIDI songs on a standard Amiga. It is not
- completely perfect (it needs far too much CPU power and the GUI is rather
- unimpressive) but it is a good start and it shows that a MIDI player using
- just the Amiga hardware is perfectly well possible.
-
- Now, I'd like to see one that can play in the background without taking over
- the machine ;-)
-
-
- Hans
-
-
-