[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Can coco3 play mp3?

[Ben Jimenez]

Thanks for that interesting info, seems everyones been
doing things with the coco I've only just thought of. 



--- Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:35, Ben Jimenez wrote:
> >so is the coco music similar to midi?
> >
> >Ben
> 
> Depends on how you are doing it Ben.  I have
> actually driven 2 
> seperate midi keyboards at the same time using
> Umuse3 a few times, 
> and thats pretty decent if the voices in the
> keyboard are good.
> 
> I had one keyboard plugged into the seriel port on
> the back, and one 
> plugged into a hacked for midi speeds rs-232 pack
> and was feeding one 
> set of voices to one keyboard, and the other to the
> second one.  And 
> I was not able to discern any rythm failures due to
> the contentions 
> that could have generated.  It played exactly what I
> had 'moused' 
> into it.
> 
> The fact that I was able to do that even surprised
> Mike K. at the 
> time.
> 
> While the coco's musical abilities in synthesizeing
> audio with its 6 
> bit resolution audio d-a are limited, you are not so
> seriously 
> limited by your midi devices, many of which can do
> 12 to 16 bit 
> stuff.  However, both of my keyboards are cheapo's
> without velocity 
> support, and limited polyphony, a serious
> shortcoming in the realism 
> dept. that 2 keyboards helped only slightly with.
> 
> But it was an interesting experiment at the time,
> and other than the 
> hardware details, I've no idea how I did it today,
> that was probably 
> 15 years ago, with an MT-240 on one side and a Casio
> CZ-101 on the 
> other.   Much data has flowed through this wet ram
> since, not all of 
> it finding a home. :-)
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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> 

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