Re: Should I return to the GS?

[tribby@cup.hp.com (Dave Tribby)]

The Independents - SUNY Buffalo (ztsindi@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu) wrote:
>                                                       I wanted to be 
> ablie to actually create digital waveforms (say visually ala Music+(?_
> on the Mac) using the mouse and the screen.

Last week I uploaded to comp.binaries.apple2 and cco.caltech.edu a
program, waveLAB, that lets users create MIDI Synth waveforms by
specifying a base wave (sine, square, triangle, sawtooth) and the
relative strengths of harmonics (up to the 19th harmonic). waveLAB
also lets users
	- get individual waveforms or instruments out of MIDI Synth
	  files and make them part of a new file
	- plot an envelope or waveform used by an instrument
	- change instruments' parameters (much like synthLAB)

I plan on updating to a new version by the end of the summer, and hope
to use comments from users to help me decide which features to add.
(I'll be away from the Internet for the next two weeks, so please
e-mail comments to tribby@cup.hp.com or wait until the last half of
May to post them.)

>                                             It would also be nice to 
> have some kind of edit capability so if I flubbed the drum part or the
> bass line 120 measures into the song I didn't have to start all over 
> again. 

Included with waveLAB is a smaller program, synthfile, that prints a
description of the sequence, instrument, and wave data files'
contents. At some point, I would like to add the capability of
printing the sequence commands--sort of like dis-assembling. Another
program could "re-assemble" an edited file.  Would that capability be
adequate for your needs?

> What I REALLY WANT TO KNOW is this....
>                               am I stuck with synthLAB Incomplete and
> SoundSmith HaHa You'll Never See 1.0 Now! ???? I would be willing to
> re-enter the fold but ONLY if I could get satisfaction on the 
> MIDI/MUSIC front....Is it possible? Or just a pipe dream? 
> 							- J.Nowakowski
> 							-ztsindi@ubvms
Strangely, there's new stuff being written for the IIGS all the time!

-- Dave Tribby (tribby@cup.hp.com, GEnie: D.TRIBBY)
Hewlett-Packard Information Networks Division, Cupertino, California