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From: ssteinbe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sarah Steinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.audio
Subject: amigamusic
Message-ID: <278cd4e4.2cd8@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 10 Jan 91 20:56:04 GMT
Reply-To: ssteinbe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sarah Steinberg)
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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	I  fantasize   about  a  pd   music   player   program
that presents an interface that  permits easy inclusion and exclusion
of amiga instruments and/or samples.   It  should  allow  easy  tempo
changes and  play  music  in  the  desired  tempo  without
fluctuation  due to other processor use. It should be small, arexx
compattible  and  unobtrusive  when included in a program with
pictures and animations.   The closest thing I've found to this is
smus3.6a by Hodgson, but it has no interface  and  is  designed  for
software applications. It also stalls when other applications run.

    In the Synthia demo, posted on a few boards there is a pd player,
 but first  ya  gotta  use instruments  that  have  been  processed
by Synthia. Of course there is Amigavision, Director, DeluxVideo etc
but these require so much in the way of players and auxilliary files; this
makes em real nice for industrial presentations, but for setting up an
amigados or arrexx script file which will play some music and show some
 pics(like with superview), they are ponderous. Too big for a one or two
disk slide show. Even with these commercial products if the music hasn't
 been  set  up  just  so, you  get  the  feared   "cant find inst"
requester. You cant fix the music in these programs cause theres no
interface to do so, so its back to DMCS etc. You can maneuver the graphics
all over the place, but the music has to be redone- very sad.

	Is there something like this around? It would seem with  a
multimedia-machine like the amiga with all its anim-players and picture
viewers that one  easy to use smus player should be available. Does anyone
know of one? If there is a problem with the smus format itself maybe some 
changes in that are in order.

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