<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> >Chris Double wrote:<br> > >...<br> > >> Rendering MIDI data into audio (via Quicktime is the only current<br> > >> solution there I suppose?)<br> <br> Can you say what you mean here? Is there a simple way to call Quicktime<br> from JavaScript to, eg, play F sharp in an oboe timbre for 0.8 seconds?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure what Chris meant, but you could generate the contents of a midi file in memory, then feed those bytes (after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding">uuencoding</a>) to your platform's midi player (w/ the embed tag). Here's an example: <a href="http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Etude" target="_blank">http://tinlizzie.org/ometa-js/#Etude</a></div> <div> </div><div>I doubt this approach would be useful for real-time stuff like making sounds come out of your keyboard morph, but it's definitely worth knowing about.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Alex</div> <div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> > > You can use HTML 5 audio via data URL's to generate sound and play it -<br> > > although it's a bit of a pain doing it this way.<br> <br> Do you mean one data URL per note (88 of them), with no control over, eg,<br> duration, pitch, etc? Or is there something better?<br> <br> >There is work being<br> > > done on working out an HTML audio generation API. See here for some<br> >> discussion:<br> >><br> >> <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490705" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490705</a><br> >><br> >> If you generate the audio on the server and serve it as a WAV file then<br> >> you can use HTML 5 audio to play it on recent Chrome, Safari, Opera and<br> > > Firefox builds (I think all those support WAV).<br> <br> Can you say a bit more? Can one serve up (or otherwise obtain) one .WAV file<br> and then use that as a timbre by ASDR techniques so you can play all 88<br> notes in various durations and volumes from that one file?<br> <br> Thanks in advance<br> <br> - Dan<br> _______________________________________________<br> lively-kernel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:lively-kernel@hpi.uni-potsdam.de" target="_blank">lively-kernel@hpi.uni-potsdam.de</a><br> <a href="http://lists.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/listinfo/lively-kernel" target="_blank">http://lists.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/listinfo/lively-kernel</a><br> </blockquote></div><br>