Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <mouser-1111961332420001@204.191.6.170>
mouser@zercom.net (Martin-Gilles Lavoie) writes:

> In article <elisha-ya023180000611962156010001@news.dot.net.au>,
> elisha@dot.net.au (Luci Ellis) wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to know how Apple could have crammed that many 16-bit
> > instrument samples into a 455k file (that's how big the musical
> > instruments file is after you delete all the icon, PICT, and other
> > obviously non-musical resources).  Try loading the resource fork of the
> > musical instruments file into a sound editor and see what you hear. 
> > You can get instrument-like noises by doing so, but they quite clearly
> > are not full digitized samples.
> 
> Ask Roland about this.  it's their stuff, not Apple's.

1.  I wrote the above, not Luci Ellis.

2.  I know it's Roland's.  The point remains, you can't cram that much
raw digitized sound into such a small file.




-Eric Bennett (ericb@psu.edu; http://emb121.rh.psu.edu)