start/play

[erik hansen]

--- "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:
> You must have missed the discussion with Scott
> about this on the 
> HyperCard list -- the short answer is, "no".
> The long answer is: it 
> could be done if someone were willing to learn
> the MIDI file format and 
> write the script-to-binary translations. Also,
> the main requirement is 
> that the person who tackles this project must
> be intrepid. :)

<from the HC list:>

I would think something like HyperMIDI would be
useful to have so that you could produce some
simple files and then decompose them to see what
parts are needed (this can be done easily using
OS X command-line tools like "hexdump -C
yourmidifile"). But even without that, MIDI
looks to be a pretty simple tagged-chunk format,
and producing something like this from within
MetaCard would be very straightforward using
either numToChar or the more advanced
binaryEncode() function.

Now just to find an intrepid person to have a go
at producing something like the HC "play notes"
command...
                     Regards,
                     Scott

<is it ethical to pirate a posting from another list?>

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