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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
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Subject: Re: MIDI control
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v097pba8@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Ken F Morton) writes:

>	Hi.  I'm planning on writing a ear training program that will drill
>and test on intervals, triads, chords, rhythm, etc.  I was planning to use
>the GS's internal ensoniq chip, using the commercial programing utility
>Sonix (So what! software), but due to the nature of this program and of the 
>ensoniq chip this was not feasible ( I cannot produce pitches of controlled
>length due to the wavetable nature of the chip.  Only however long the sample
>was.). 

Umm... you can turn the note off manually. You can in fact control the length
of the tone if you look at the tone as a single straight-thru sound sample
rather than as a waveform. It is possible to get the ensoniq to play all 64K
and stop when it hits 8 consecutive zeros in the data.

Mail me if you need programming details.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu