Aron_Fingers_Nelson@cup.portal.com (12/07/88)
I'm wondering if anyone out there has any ideas how sequencers such as Sequencer Plus, Performer 2.3, Master tracks pro, Forte II and cakewalk do independent looping? This is driving me nuts! Do they use a linked list of pointers for each track? If so and they loop independently during playback, when does the data get sorted? What kind of sorting algorithm is fast enough so that you don't get objectional pauses while sorting? In the case of the MPU-401, do they sort many tracks into one > more tracks? When does the sort occur? How can cakewalk get 255 tracks and still have mute/unmute/loop/offset/transposition is real time without objectional delays? How do they handle mixed meters for each track? When does quantization occur? Please help! None of my friends can help me on this matter. If you have any ideas how they manage the data on playback - please send e-mail or post. ManyThanksInAdvance, Aron_nelson@cup.portal.com or Randomizer@cup.portal.com