Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <email-0511962038450001@netnews.worldnet.att.net>
email@domain.com (Craig Koller) writes:

> A friend built a Director presentation for his company with full music
> pieces via QTMidi. It was extremely cool, and the compositions made the
> most of the limited set and sound (this was almost two years ago). A full
> two-minute piece of music was 17K! and the overhead was minimal. However,
> there was *no* documentation at the time from Apple, and my friend wound
> up calling the principal programmer on the project, in order to get
> answers to some fundamental questions. Once again, another cool technology
> that went completely unsupported by Apple (what the hell is new?).

QT MIDI can sound very good if music was specifically written for it. 
Unfortunately its small instrument set forces it to make ugly
substitutions on most files that were not specifically written for it.


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

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