[Coco] Sound Chaser Multi-Format Music Player BETA

Fri Jun 29 11:03:28 EDT 2012

On Friday 29 June 2012 10:41:21 Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> I've been messing around with this today, very nice!  Ultimuse
> playback works perfectly over dw4 (the only thing I have to test with,
> no real midi interfaces for coco).

Yes, a previous test session 2-3 months ago worked well, but since none of 
my stuff was moused in in GM format, the instruments were pretty well mix-
mastered.

> Would it be possible to run the player in a separate process so that
> the sndchaser interface was still usable?  That would allow the user
> to change output devices on the fly from within the program, queue up
> the next song maybe, that kind of thing.

UltimuseIII on the coco3 can actually use more than one output device 
already, I had assigned (AIR) several of the instruments to the bitbanger, 
and several to the converted to midi speeds rs232 pack, so at the time I 
had a cable from the bitbanger plugged into an MT-240, and a cable from the 
232 pack plugged into a CZ-101, which gave me 4 voices on the mt-240 and 8 
voices on the CZ-101.  I could make quite a racket that was almost music, 
the _almost_ because neither of those keyboards did velocity, from their 
own keyboards or over midi.  Musically that is a huge shortcoming.  But I 
didn't have the sheckles at the time for a sound canvas let alone a decent 
Roland keyboard of the day.

I don't recall that UltiMuseIII even had that capability, does it?

With modern polyphonic midi devices (and our sound cards too) capable of 16 
instruments each, it seems that a voice translator to reassign my non-std, 
non-GM music instruments in the GM map would allow us to more accurately 
play the music I moused in with such delight when it all actually worked 
right here in this room nearly 20 years ago, would be a nice facility to 
have.  Hint...

> well done
> -Aaron
> 
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >  I've finally posted a Beta version of the Sound Chaser Multi-Format
> > Music Player for OS-9 on my Coco Music site. This is by no means a
> > release and is put up for those who would like to try it out and give
> > some feedback. Currently, it will only play two music formats.
> > Ultimuse & Musica. Orchestra 90 & Lyra are getting real close to
> > completion and will be added soon as will be a standard midifile
> > player! I have provided a variety of music on the demo disk as well.
> > In my Ultimuse player, there is the ability to play Midi through the
> > Coco Serial port, Speech Systems Midi Pak of which Gleneside's pak is
> > compatable, and any user Midi interface that uses the /MIDI driver.
> > Yep... that means it will now play through Drivewire flawlessly. You
> > can even select which DW sound source you want to use right from the
> > menu. This means all you who've not been able to play Midi due to
> > lack of Midi hardware can now do so with Sound Chaser & Drivewire.
> > The Musica player will play music through the Coco's 6 bit dac or the
> > Orchestra 90 pak and the Speech Systems Stereo pak, BOTH IN FULL
> > STEREO. Of cource you have to have the paks plugged into a stereo
> > sound system for this to work. Now if Aaron would just write in an
> > 8-bit stereo sound driver for DriveWire that had to write enabled
> > ports... :-)   The Orch90 function also works real well in the
> > emulators.
> > 
> > What I need:
> > I need people with an Orch90 pak and Speech Systems pak to try this
> > out and let me know if there's any problems. Also, Does anyone own a
> > ColOrchestra Midi pak? or the InterComp Sound Midi interface? I have
> > the info on the colorchestra pak and can write a drive in for that,
> > but I have no info on the InterComp Sound Midi pak.
> > 
> > Also... does anyone know how to detect whether or not these paks are
> > present? I know there's a way and I would like to be able to disable
> > the menu option for those paks not present on a system on program
> > startup.
> > 
> > And most of all PLEASE read the SoundChaser.doc file found in the root
> > directory of the Demo disk image.
> > 
> >  So click here for your listening pleasure
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/sound-chaser
> > 
> > And for info on my other projects coming soon..
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/coco-projects
> > 
> > And there's always my studio recorded Coco music...
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/home/the-music
> > And the Coco with me on Guitar...
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/the-performance
> > 
> > Please let me know of any bugs you may find or any suggestions you may
> > have Thanks All...
> > 
> > Music from the Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer 2 & 3
> > https://sites.google.com/site/dabarnstudio/
> > Bill Pierce
> > ooogalapasooo at aol.com
> > 
> > 
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