I made a new audio file type called a TAF file. I made an audio player for it in Panther. It doesn't work as well as other audio file types, and it is monophonic. TAF stands for Text Audio File. Does anyone know how to make it so that the audio player can play more than one note at a time?
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You're talking about polyphonics
Where more than one note is played at once. An option would be to have a file that has several start points, specify how many start points there are at the top of the file and maybe the line that each start points starts on. Use clone to make that many sprites and get each one to then start playing notes from their starting line. Use the timer block or the date/time block to keep them in sync. That's probably your best bet
This sounds like a very exciting project! I hope you send it to the Panther site when it's done and I will upload it to the Panther site
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It probably will take a while to get just right. Thanks for the advice!
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scratcher7_13 wrote:
I made a new audio file type called a TAF file. I made an audio player for it in Panther. It doesn't work as well as other audio file types, and it is monophonic. TAF stands for Text Audio File. Does anyone know how to make it so that the audio player can play more than one note at a time?
Mono = One
Phonic = Sound
Poly = More than one
So your file is either monophonic or polyphonic. Which one?
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bbbeb wrote:
scratcher7_13 wrote:
I made a new audio file type called a TAF file. I made an audio player for it in Panther. It doesn't work as well as other audio file types, and it is monophonic. TAF stands for Text Audio File. Does anyone know how to make it so that the audio player can play more than one note at a time?
Mono = One
Phonic = Sound
Poly = More than one
So your file is either monophonic or polyphonic. Which one?
Last edited by scratcher7_13 (2011-04-15 21:12:50)
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scratcher7_13 wrote:
bbbeb wrote:
scratcher7_13 wrote:
I made a new audio file type called a TAF file. I made an audio player for it in Panther. It doesn't work as well as other audio file types, and it is monophonic. TAF stands for Text Audio File. Does anyone know how to make it so that the audio player can play more than one note at a time?
Mono = One
Phonic = Sound
Poly = More than one
So your file is either monophonic or polyphonic. Which one?
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veggieman001 wrote:
wait, do you mean monophonic or monaural?
I don't know. It can use 127 different sounds, but can't play chords.
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scratcher7_13 wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
wait, do you mean monophonic or monaural?
I don't know. It can use 127 different sounds, but can't play chords.
what i mean by that is whether the audio has 1 or 2 (or more) audio channels.
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veggieman001 wrote:
scratcher7_13 wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
wait, do you mean monophonic or monaural?
I don't know. It can use 127 different sounds, but can't play chords.
what i mean by that is whether the audio has 1 or 2 (or more) audio channels.
I don't know, but I think it has one.
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sparks wrote:
bbbeb, His sound file is currently monophonic, he is asking how to get it to become polyphonic.
Oh.
You need to have it read and play both at the same time, but I don't believe squeak can do that.
You could also use a special character to separate the different waves of sound.
I am no sound designer, so i wouldn't know.
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Use the method I suggest. Something along these lines: (number before the | is line number).
01|2 -->number of start points
02|03 --> location of Start point 1
03|10 --> location of start point 2
04|ST --> start point
05|60 -->note number
06|0.2 --> note duration
07|59
08|0.2
09|58
10|ST --> start point 2
11|61
12|0.2
13|62
14|0.2
So get Panther to look for all the start points, then play them all through
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