Re: DOC-RAM swapping with MIDI seqs (was 2 questions...)

[irsman@drift.winternet.com (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <3dv030$hfj@telerama.lm.com>,
Matt Portune <mportune@telerama.lm.com> wrote:

>Wo wo wo.  I think my original point has become twisted.  Look at 
>NoiseTracker... the good ol original FTA version.  It used all available 
>RAM for loading in samples.  All I need is to trigger them via incoming 
>MIDI data instead from the song sheet data.  No fancy effects.  Just Note 
>On, Note Off, and if possible, pitch bend and velocity sensitivity, but 
>nothing else.  (Unless of course, it's possible)  I'm not talking about a 
>general midi player or anything like that... just a plain old 
>NoiseTracker with MIDI support.

Any tracker, including advanced ones like MED, requires a LOT less CPU
time for sequencing than even noteon/noteoff only MIDI, due to things like
the variable-length quantities, assumed note offs, and other facts of MIDI
life.  This is the problem :)

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