From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: Allegro MIDI looping
Date:	Sun, 9 Mar 1997 14:41:43 +0000
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George Foot writes:
>BTW what is a sequence? (IIRC SMF file type 2... a sequence and a set of 
>tracks). If it means what I think it means, this could be the exact
>solution.

The spec I have describes type 2 as a "horizontally one-dimensional
form" containing "one or more sequentially independent single-track
patterns". Exactly what they mean by that is open to question, but I get
the impression that each track is an independent piece of music, and
they are not intended to be played simultaneously (eg. you could store
several different songs in a single file, and randomly select one for a
jukebox program). What I don't see is any way to specifiy the play
order, without which limits the usefulness of the format. I'm also not
aware of any programs that can edit format 2 files, while every
sequencer is able to insert text tags into type 0 and 1 files, so I
think using custom markers would be a more robust approach...

>: Thanks for the suggestion: it's going on the todo list...
>
>... along with how many other things? ;)

Too many! Actually I can only count eight at the moment, but some of
those are pretty large (rewrite of the sound module, truecolor,
linux...) Plenty to keep me going for the next couple of years :-)


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