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[Amos Blanton <amos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmmm.... I always used to get an error message in the applet saying
something like "Failed to load soundbank"... it's been a while. I always
figured it was b/c of lack of good midi libraries in Linux, but maybe it was
just temporary problem with my applet or Java config. Hrm...

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:46 PM, John Maloney <jmaloney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi, Amos.
>
> Wow, that's very cool! (And a nifty random-music project featuring the old
> I - IV - V - I chord sequence).
>
> But are you sure MIDI has not always worked in the Java player? Java has
> it's own MIDI synthesizer, so I would have expected MIDI to work even on
> Linux. Unfortunately, that doesn't help with playing MIDI from within the
> Scratch application.
>
>        -- John
>
>
>
> On Mar 29, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Amos Blanton wrote:
>
>  Recently I noticed that when I view this project in my FF browser, I can
>> hear the midi music:
>>
>> http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/zxz1661/947956
>>
>> That means something in the browser or java applet is processing midi and
>> playing it back on my _Linux_ system. Andres, does it work for you too?
>>
>> The only piece of software installed on my system that's midi related
>> appears to be: libwildmidi0
>>
>> "MIDI streaming library designed to process a midi file and stream the
>> results
>> as stereo audio data through a buffer which an external program can then
>> process further."
>>
>> So - I'm not sure that's it, and if so how it's working... but it's
>> working!
>>
>> Amos
>>
>>
>> --
>> _____
>> Amos
>>
>>
>


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Amos