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From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: a new music standard
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Date: 1 Nov 90 04:44:51 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.182940.17900@evax.arl.utexas.edu> 
  hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill) writes:
>First off ST/NT is a totally inadequate format. If has 64 "quanta" divisions 
>per blocks. Is is bad for triplets and music isn't "BLOCK" oriented it is 
>measure oriented and the standard should be measure oriented as well.

I don't see this as a problem since a suitable tempo can be picked that will
allow multiples of 2, 3, 4, 6, whatever.  The blocks themselves need not 
reflect the measures written in the case of a traditional music editor.  

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.

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 possible problem with the above speed solution is that MED doesn't work
under 2.0 (from my experience).  I assume that there is a legal way to
get a CIA timer, though.

>  The ball is rolling.....

At least I hope it is...

>-- 
> adam hill                                 "I will tell you three things.."   
> hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu                     Make Up Your Own Mind.. AMIGA!
>                                              Amiga... Multimedia NOW!!  
> 24 Bit Color(n.) Large waster of bandwidth.  "Amiga walk with me ........"


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