[directmusic] Re: Wierdness
- From: "Fraser Brown" <freelists.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 20:24:02 +1000
Cool. Thanks for the info Dugan.
I think it's still early days for interactive music/audio and there's some
truly amazing stuff to come. MS might be a little hesitant to put too much
resources into it right now but DM is a great start and I'm sure as high
powered consoles and/or PCs hooked up to cranking 5.1 or greater sound
systems become the norm in the living rooms of the masses, we'll see our
hard work pay off.
:)
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dugan Porter
|| Sent: Sunday, 4 May 2003 5:07 PM
|| To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Subject: [directmusic] Re: Wierdness
||
||
||
|| Hi Fraser. Fear not, there are no plans to yank support for DirectMusic
|| in Windows - applications using it will continue to work, and the
|| current level of support will continue (documentation, samples, the
|| authoring tool, and bug fixes where possible for any major
|| customer-blocking issues). However, it's also true that currently we
|| don't have any plans to add new features or enhancements to DirectMusic.
|| As you said, it does cater to a somewhat niche area, and as such it is a
|| bit of an anomaly in the Windows API family. There really isn't
|| sufficient adoption of DirectMusic in mass market applications like
|| games for us to justify more investment in it at this point. So,
|| unless/until that situation changes - WYSIWYG ;-)
||
|| Dugan Porter - Audio API Dev Lead - Microsoft
|| This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
|| rights
||
||
|| -----Original Message-----
|| From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fraser Brown
|| Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:11 PM
|| To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| Subject: [directmusic] Re: Wierdness
||
|| hi everyone.
||
|| first post for me - nice to be here!
||
|| i thought i'd jump in here because i'm new to direct music and i'm also
|| reading up on some other stuff that you may also be interested in.
||
|| anyone here know of Csound?
||
|| it's the grand daddy of computer music and really AFAIK the only true
|| cross platform solution for implementing any sort of code based
|| music/audio including *interactive audio*, midi, synthesis and sample
|| manipulation.
||
|| it's a lot more 'hard core' tho... helps to have a good knowledge of
|| signal processing, programming and music.
||
|| being new to both csound and directmusic, i'm not sure how they compare
|| in terms of accepting input from other devices.
||
|| so far, the thing that attracts me to direct music is is the idea of
|| creating content for a widely used platform that shares a whole bunch of
|| APIs so in the case of interactive audio, i can see that there'll be a
|| geater chance of getting to use DM content in interesting applications
|| developed by experts in other areas - graphics, AI etc.
||
|| i'd be really dissapointed if direct music doesn't get supported in the
|| future. interactive music/audio has a lot of potential and MS really
|| have an opportunity to sew it up if they keep DM a happening thing.
||
|| actually the way DM has been made freely available and the fact that it
|| is catering for a really niche and cutting edge idea/technology
|| (interactive
|| audio) - coming from MS - has pleasantly surprised me. hate to see it
|| go. is that really true?
||
|| cheers,
|| fraser
||
|| || -----Original Message-----
|| || From: directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| || [mailto:directmusic-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jason Booth
|| || Sent: Saturday, 3 May 2003 1:31 AM || To: directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
|| || Subject: [directmusic] Re: Wierdness || || ||
|| || Which reminds me of my worries - Direct Music is
|| basically not
|| || being developed or really supported in the future, and there's
|| currently || no plans to port XACT to windows. Whats the future for
|| interactive music || on PCs? Will we all have to roll our own systems
|| in the future, or is || there some other, preferably cross-platform,
|| solution we should all be || moving too?
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