ssteinbe@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sarah Steinberg) (01/11/91)
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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bsercomb@gara.une.oz.au (Bradley Sercombe) (03/21/91)
Just a new user on the gara system (Oz une of new england) logging in I have a modest system of about 1000 samples, a garbage heap mono sampler and about 100 songs, some of my own creation. My latest and greatest work is Sweet Child Of Mine by guns'n'roses. I have some over the top stuff and some one meg blowing music (such as the star wars rap). If you are interested in some of this stuff contact me thru this network.