Re: True Midi & Soundsmith/MOD composer

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <2igveb$afk@news.iastate.edu> irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt) writes:
[Proposed program...]

>- Plays Type 0 or Type 1 MIDI (.MID) files directly, no conversion needed.
>- 10 voice polyphony if I support panning, 15 otherwise (MSynth is 7 :)
>- Responds to General MIDI or Roland MT-32 program changes, so 95% of MIDI
>  files from ftp, America Online's PC section, etc will work as-is.
>- Some kind of ability to remap instruments so you can emulate additional
>  synthesizers, sound modules, and drum machines.
>- Full General MIDI controller compliance (pitch&modulation wheels, etc).
>- Uses only the GS Ensoniq chip!
>- Swaps samples so large high-sampling-rate instruments can be used.
>- Some kind of MIDI file editing too, and maybe even a notation-based
>  editor.  Probably not in the first version though :)
>
>Since MIDI is pretty much taking over on other machines (including the Amiga,
>PC, and Mac), this kind of player is important (the PC only can do this with
>the Gravis card, for instance :)

This is an extremely ambitious proposal, and would be one of importance. One
can only hope you carry through with it. By the way there are several ways
the PC can do this. One is the Gravis, another new cards from Roland and
Turtle Beach and both the SB16 with WB ( gives you a Proteus) or the
PAS16XL can do most of what you are talking about. Of course these all
cost $500 or so...

>Ian Schmidt / irsman@iastate.edu / IRSMan@aol.com

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