Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <AEA51B6B-1A5720@198.68.42.202>
"Lawson English" <english@primenet.com> writes:

> >But it dosn't do this by synthesis.  It basically has a bank of
> >samples and plays them in accordance with MIDI data.  This is more
> >like playing MODs or SoundSmith than something like synthLAB, which
> >was what Mitch was refering to.
> 
> AFAIK, you are incorrect. The QTMA is using a 16-bit synthesizer supplied
> by another company. You can also "roll your own," but I'm not certain how
> sophisticated this is yet.

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.


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