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Re: musical notes

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Oct 27, 2001
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Jerry Story wrote:

>  On the Atari ST way back in 1980s in GFA BASIC
> as I recall there was something called "sound()"
> or something like that.

For the most part, that's been replaced with MIDI. Andrew Greenwood has
written a MIDI library that runs under Win32Lib, and a MPU-401 library that
runs under DOS. An MPU-401 is a 'generic' type of device for sending
information to an external MIDI device, but most SoundBlasters will
interpret this for you if you don't have an external MIDI device.

I've written a wrapper around Anderew's MIDI library that simplifies working
with it.

If you are interested in working with .WAV files, Pete Eberlein wrote a MOD
tracker for DOS in Euphoria. This can play .WAV file samples in real time,
essentially turning your computer into a 4 note digital sampler.

I'd take the MIDI route myself. It's a lot simpler to use than real-time
mixing, and if you have a decent soundcard, you can get excellent sound
quality.

-- David Cuny