Re: Apple Drops Backward Compatibility for Next MacOS

[ericb@pobox.com (Eric Bennett)]

In article <55qna1$g9f@mark.ucdavis.edu>
eddy@cs.ucdavis.edu (arekusu) writes:

> 
> In QT 7.5 all samples except the drum kit are 8 bit. 

The samples are 16 bit as of QuickTime 2.5, released several months
ago.

> In comparison to a PC wavetable card, the QT instrument set is severely
> lacking, due to a single sample being used for multiple MIDI instruments.
>
> Reverb, chorus etc could all be done if software- provided Apple bothered.

Agreed.  That's why I like the Yamaha MIDIPlug.
 
I think this is another case where Apple was hoping for third-party
vendor to take advantage of Apple's publication of the specs for the
instrument file.  Yamaha has not yet said whether it will offer the
MIDIPlug setup as a QuickTime plug-in.



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

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