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From: hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: a new music standard
Message-ID: <1990Nov1.063344.10694@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 1 Nov 90 06:33:44 GMT
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In article <38990@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
>In article <1990Oct31.182940.17900@evax.arl.utexas.edu> 

>In other words, you could write a program to allow the user to enter the
>music in traditional format with measures, triplets, etc. and translate
>them to ST/NT format.  The dynamic tempo adjustment should be able to 
>handle just about anything.

  Translation is fine. A music composition program should use MUSIC notation 
and should be BPM based.

>One thing that _does_ bother me is the problem with songs written on PAL
>machines being played on NTSC machines too fast and the other way
>around.  MED attacks this problem by using a CIA timer (I believe) instead
>of the screen refresh rate.  Soooo....I think that this should be done 
>in the traditional song editor too.

   One could use a CIA timer but we'd have to use CIAA B. A is use by 2.0 for
something.


>---------------Greg-Harp---------------greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu----------------



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