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To: Wurlitzer
You're kidding, right?
MIDI is a pretty good piece of Tech, especially if you're considering SoundFonts. (You can get MP3+ quality in less than the megabyte MIDI-file + whatever SoundFonts you're using, which while they can be expensive [size-wise] can be "shared" across many MIDI-files.) IOW, MIDI+SF is ideal for games.
69 posted on 09/10/2013 9:30:20 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Less than a meg????????????? No you have to be kidding.

I’m not even close to kidding! FACT! Right now I need 32 GIG JUST for the soundfonts required for one of the organs used in Hauptwerk.

64 gig would be better. Some users of Hauptwerk use 8,16,32 or more audio channels/amps/speakers and nobody would waste their money if the source was MP3.

MP3 quality is an oxymoron! That’s a fact! It is a data compression algorithm which has unrecoverable data loss. MP3 is NOT a loss less compression. It works for many things which do NOT require true audio fidelity.

There is no quality VTPO (virtual theater pipe organ) using MP3 soundfonts.

The quality needed for games is nowhere near what is needed for real high quality Pipe organ soundfonts. They are not even in the same league.

A few MIDI drivers were broken in Win 8 and MS answer was YAWN therefore my caution to anyone using MIDI might find themselves without an MS OS to support it. The reality is it is just a very small market for MS so they can ignore it without seeing more than a blip on their bottom line.


71 posted on 09/10/2013 10:16:01 AM PDT by Wurlitzer (Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
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