Re: Anyone have ensonic or asif docs?

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

In article <36of9q$cgc@nntp1.u.washington.edu>,
Ethan Fischer <allanon@u.washington.edu> wrote:

>	What am I doing?  I'm writing a SoundSmith player (eventually 
>editor as well) for Linux (wonderful, spiffy, cool, awesome unix for 386+ 
>computer systems) and am having some trouble mostly with the envelopes of 
>ASIF files.  Additional things I have trouble with are things like 
>DOCmode, priority increment, etc (all the stuff that's GS specific), and 
>since I don't have a hardware reference for the GS it's hard to figure 
>stuff out.

SoundSmith ignores the envelope completely; it only uses the wave size and
DOCMode paramters from the ASIF file.

>listed in the ftn)?  Also, is it normal for songs to atempt to play 
>instruments that aren't defined in the file?  I have a lot of songs that 
>do and I was wondering what the proper course action should be when this 
>occurs.

Attempting to play an instrument which doesn't exist (either an invalid # or
inst. 0 before any non-zero instrument has been played on that track) should
do nothing.  I and others use a trick like that to save space in songs by
having a single pattern play two different ways.

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