Re: [Fractint] Detecting MIDI hardware and emulating VESA under windows.
Author: Richard Date: 2011-02-16 14:23 -700 To: FractInt Discussion Subject: Re: [Fractint] Detecting MIDI hardware and emulating VESA under windows.
Which feature in fractint are you using that depends on MIDI/sound output?
Press CTRL-F. SW-synth (if you double-click on your speaker icon in your lower right hand corner, then it pulls up your mixer) is also volume control on MIDI file playback.
Can you supply a PAR file that captures the situation you're having trouble with?
Again, press CTRL-F. Disable the PC-speaker. Enable the sound card. My sound card is Intel-IBM-Lanovo, which does not do SoundBlaster. I was trying to get soundblaster emulation with VirtualBox, so that I could record it with low (damn near no) noise. I also wanted VESA support (for graphics modes above 300x400x256). Today, that is a wash, whether by cygwin or VirtualBox. It just focuses me on delivering a flavour of my synthesizer that processes orbitsave files from FracTint, and those will be extremely clean sound files (double precision in my synthesizer is massive overkill, and it makes me feel superior). _______ http://ecn.ab.ca/~brewhaha/Sound/
Jay Litwyn wrote:
*Author: *Richard *Date: * 2011-02-16 14:23 -700 *To: *FractInt Discussion *Subject: *Re: [Fractint] Detecting MIDI hardware and emulating VESA under windows.
Which feature in fractint are you using that depends on MIDI/sound output?
Press CTRL-F. SW-synth (if you double-click on your speaker icon in your lower right hand corner, then it pulls up your mixer) is also volume control on MIDI file playback.
Can you supply a PAR file that captures the situation you're having trouble with? Again, press CTRL-F. Disable the PC-speaker. Enable the sound card. My sound card is Intel-IBM-Lanovo, which does not do SoundBlaster. I was trying to get soundblaster emulation with VirtualBox, so that I could record it with low (damn near no) noise.
Virtual box and DOSBox both provide SoundBlaster emulation. VirtualBox even gives me an option to allow the Windows XP session running under it to access my USB sound card, although I haven't tried that. I don't use Windows for making music. -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
In article <CDDCBDC5025D467DA428B24FB042C2E0@terabyte.com>, "Jay Litwyn" <brewhaha@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca> writes:
Which feature in fractint are you using that depends on MIDI/sound output?
Press CTRL-F. [...]
That's the screen where you configure the sound parameters. What I'm asking about is what fractal you are using with sound generation. IIRC, fractint can generate sounds based on the orbit of each iterated pixel. You would use the orbitdelay to get a reasonable sounding output. Do you have a PAR set that uses any of the following commands: sound= hertz= orbitdelay= showorbit= orbitsave= polyphony= wavetype= attack= decay= sustain= srelease= volume= attenuate= scalemap= If so, could you share that on the list. Its hard to support the feature going forward to newer environments without understanding how people are using it in practice in the old environment. The real solution isn't figuring out how to drag along DOS; the real solution is how to provide the feature in current operating environments. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>
Richard wrote:
If so, could you share that on the list. Its hard to support the feature going forward to newer environments without understanding how people are using it in practice in the old environment.
The real solution isn't figuring out how to drag along DOS; the real solution is how to provide the feature in current operating environments.
The real solution is for one of the many billionaire/millionaire folk with spare money to fund the Fractint team in an effort to free Fractint of its DOS dependencies, and make it readily portable. In my opinion, in such a way that the fractal generation part can be a backend with a standard API for using it with a variety of frontends (GUI or text). Rework the back end to incorporate things like multithreading, using multiple cores, etc. Would be nice if I could run Fractint backend on my faster machines and run the UI at my little laptop. Apparently there's a slow-moving effort to produce a free 32-bit DOS <http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/>. Don't know how it might benefit Fractint, or if Fractint could even run under it. There's also an assortment of DOS extenders which maybe could help? <http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/dosextenders.shtml> -- David gnome@hawaii.rr.com authenticity, honesty, community
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