recerik@alliant.uni-c.dk (Erik Bertelsen) (08/25/89)
As a new member of a multi media project I'm trying to learn how to programme a macintosh computer. In the project we are using the MPW programming environment. As a resource programming exercise I have decided to construct some 'snd ' resources containing a wavetable sound and a four part setting of a tune. For that purpose I have been studying the 'Sound Manager Documentation' from Apple. I started to see how the sound commands are working, so that I could 'translate' my musical score. That seems not to be very difficult, but how do I combine a sequence of NoteCmds with a resource containing a 'generalWaveTableSynth' so that I can have my four parts played synchronously ? Must the header of the wave table contain information about number of samples etc. like the generalSampledSynth ? Can I have the sound information in one resource and open 4 channels with SndNewChannel each using the same wave table and the score represented as NoteCmds in another resource? When I want to play the score, do I then have to open yet another channel for the performance of then NoteCmds, and how do that channel know how to find the four sound channels? I have made several experiments all of them ending with silence or crash. Erik Bertelsen UNI-C, The Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education.