[directmusic] Re: Wierdness
- From: "Dugan Porter" <duganp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <directmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 00:07:17 -0700
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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