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From: dgold@basso.actrix.co.nz (Dale Gold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: a new music standard
Message-ID: <4690.tnews@basso.actrix.co.nz>
Date: 4 Nov 90 17:10:51 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
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Quoted from - hill@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Adam Hill):
> 
> First off ST/NT is a totally inadequate format. It has 64 "quanta" 
> divisions per blocks. It is bad for triplets and music isn't "BLOCK" 
> oriented it is  measure oriented and the standard should be measure 
> oriented as well.

A VERY important point. I think that Soundtracker originated as a way of
writing music for demos, and I guess those blocks of 64 make things easy
for a programmer, but although the ST/NT format may have become a defacto
standard for Amiga music, giving serious consideration to adopting it as
the basis for a replacement for SMUS/IFF is a step backward. No, it's
several steps backward.

Why not look into something that relates to the MIDI specs? This has been 
carefully defined, and covers all the important possibilities, and is not
specific to any brand of computer. 
 
> Are there any good books out there on the "mechanics" of music. Especially 
> ones geared toward computer representation of music. 

Music shops are full of books about MIDI, and I've seen several that deal
with the technical end. Keyboard magazine is a good source of info, &
book titles.
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