On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Eric Smith wrote:
>
> > Remember to pay the ASCAP royalties so you don't get your ass sued off.
>
> Oh, right. Damn pesky lawyers.
>
> > This is why some phone systems provide music-on-hold that is synthesized
> > classical music. There's no royalty to pay.
>
> Maybe I'll just pipe in Commodore SID music instead (from an actual
> Commodore 64 even! ;)
I was about to scream, but then realized that a SID is much better than
the other 8bit choices of the time, like The NES's synth, or (shudder) a
PC speaker. Square waves are _not_ friends of my ears... unless you find
a good way to synth using 'magic sinewaves' (courtesy of Don Lancaster:
http://www.tinaja.com/magsn01.asp). However, I doubt you'll get enough
speed to calcuate them on the fly on a classic 8bit machine (of course you
could generate them in advance, but that'd be cheating ;-).
Pat
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Received on Fri Nov 08 2002 - 16:13:00 GMT
