Re: Graphics & Music

[Matthias Bauer]

On 9/4/2002 4:56 PM Kenneth Gangstoe wrote:

> Quoting David Philippi (address@hidden):
>
> > > Does ClanLib support MIDI well, or would a MIDI sampled to OGG be better?
> >
> > There's MIDI support in ClanLib and I'd guess that the average MIDI is a 
> > tenth of the size of an Ogg Vorbis file. Maybe that MIDI won't sound as nice 
> > if it's played with a worse soundcard then the one used to same MIDI to Ogg 
> > Vorbis but a download of 100 MB would be far worse in my opinion.
>
> No, ClanLib does not support MIDI. MIDI is a dead format, and please stop
> using it - it sucks :) (It never sounds the same on the composers machine
> as it does on the endusers machine anyway)

Umm. Midi is dead? Since when? :P
(Semi-)Professional musicians might disagree.

But well, of course we can sample into Ogg at -1, should sound ok and 
have pretty small sizes. Still no comparison to MIDI...

moe.