User Group - RT: step forward or backward?

                                          
A. Parasite                                 
Reflections - suggestions.                
                                          
 RT - a step forward or a step back?       
                                          
  It's sad, gentlemen... It's sad to look at
our soft in terms of music. Nothing new...
  Oh, just don't poke me: GS,
Sound drive, Covox. How much new software for
him!..                                   
  There is a lot of software, but itis in its infancy
condition.  This editor does this, the other
- that's it... And so that everything is in one at once, and even
and something new? Small gut?..
  Yes.  There are some more or less, but
Each, again, has its own shortcomings...     
  Okay, let's not talk about digital devices.
I actually wanted to talk about AU-
music.                                    
  This is a real bummer... Almost everyone
new editors are released every day.   From
players, in general, were gone. If
you see a mysterious abbreviation in the file name
la and you can’t understand her, just know that this is
new demo (I emphasize) version of the newplayer...                                
  And how, in fact, is this “new” different?
does it come from the “old” ones? Everyone has the same thing:   
 1) Supports formats: ST, STP, RT,   
PSC, ASM...                               
 2) Equipped with a timer                     
 3) You can loop the melody              
 4) You can change the speed              
 That's it... And why make them in dozens
under different names, and also according to
how many versions?                            
  To hell with them, gentlemen, with the players...   
  What about the editors?                            
  How far do you think RT v3.x has gone?
(REMIX) from the respected old man ST?
You can count it on your fingers. The only thing
clever innovation: automatic installation
what about the envelopes...                           
 But that's only half the problem...                  
  Nothing terrible would happen if
version by version the editor has been improved
for the better.  But everything looks
otherwise.  I see this picture:
The coder sits and thinks, what should he do?
ST or RT catches his eye and he
begins to “reconstruct” it. But at the same time
doesn’t think about it at all, but really
but are the innovations that he introduces necessary?  
  Result:good editor with one -
two glitches mutilated beyond recognition.
And I’m generally silent about new glitches...       
  Don't believe me?  Look at the first ST (about
We won’t remember “WHAM”).              
  Quite a working version. Glitches only when
loading sample...                        
 Let's move on: ST Pro.                   
 The loading glitch has been killed.  Compiler and
Decompiler from individual programs migrated
rolled into a single shell. Okay...      
 Now let's move on to RT. Let's start with v.
2.1...                                    
  The appearance has changed(this is a matter of aesthetics)
tic),  many new service functions
(thank you, the users were satisfied), of them
I would like to especially highlight the automatic
adjustment of the envelopes (bravo!).               
 Now RT v. 2.4...                     
 This is where the insanity begins.
  We installed a couple of new service
(good), but why mock the player-
Xia?  Perhaps yours is faster. Maybe.
But oncealready started, then finish it to completion
tsa... As a result of changing the player decompil
doesn't work. And the fact that it worked even in ST
perfect, died in the new version. I say
about the possibility of playing the compiled
music separately from the editor. No, with one
This player copes with the melody... Try-
try to play with one player
two or three melodies, as it was in ST. I have
personally only the one that was shipped sounded
on with him. From the rest he refuses -
val. Yes, yes. ST could, but RT cannot...    
 Agree, - this is already a step back...     
 Then RT v appears on the scene. 3.x...  
 And what do we see? All that remains from the Republic of Tatarstan is the so-called
tion.                                    
  The appearance is completely different from its
brother (this is the authors' quirk, here we have our own
choice - for God's sake...),but...        
  Numbers of positions, patterns and everything in general
arithmetic in NES codes. For a simple user -
what about a musician? Every time start STS and
transfer to DEC? What is this? It was so necessary
do we go?                                   
  Everything is output in 64 character format
line.  Am I a novel in three volumes on it?
will I write? Previously there was enough space even under
32 characters...The player has become even larger and often itself
player takes up more space than the melody,
which he must lose...            
  The only difference (!) is for the better
well: besides his own, he understands the formats of others
editors.                               
 Following it comes another one: RT 3.x
(REMIX)...                                
 I don’t want to talk about it at all. Again
the "face" has changed. And the compiled me-
The login didn’t start for me at all (even
alone.  For this reason, I can’t say whether it’s possible
lose several with one player)...   
  Let's summarize.                          
 In the development of music editors, we
took a “huge step forward”, and now in
We're moving backwards at the same pace!..             
 What causes this?                        
  It seems to me that the authors do not have enough fan-
Tazia... As a result, their new projects
resemble vandalism.  It's like
how a little child took a picture of one
one of the great artists, completed the drawing on it
horns (emphasis on the first syllable), counted,
that it looks better this way and went to sell
treat it like your own... People look at the picture, see
They find something familiar and... buy it!        
 All of the above is words and speculation.
"Anyone can criticize,"you say.-
You yourself didn’t say anything sensible..."  
                                          
  Yes, gentlemen, I haven’t said YET. And now,
so as not to be unfounded, I will say.         
  As they write in all help's, "the editor is
uses the capabilities of the AU by 99%". I am not
der and not a “hardware man”, so argue with
I won't do that.                             
  Specifically, I propose to take as a basis
some kind of buggy editor (ST,
ASM, or RT v2.1). Fix ALL glitches. AND
build something on this foundation
new.                                    
  “What is THIS new?” you ask.       
  I answer.  For starters, what we tried
implement in others:                        
 1) import music from ANY other re-
daktor;                                  
  2) correct decompilation;             
  3) upon shipment, the foreign melody is re-
compiled into the format of OUR editor;
(i.e. if before that I wrote in different languages
dactors, then I don’t throw away all the previous ones
creations, and I upload them to OUR and, simply,
I'm uploading with a new player).         
  "But what's new here?" - you ask.
  Wait. That's not all.              
  Now it's really new.  What's uphas not been used yet. Everything I'm talking about
I will talk further, you can release it from-
a useful program, or you can use it in the editor
insert.   (In general, in some
SUPER MUSIC PLAYER they will also not
superfluous). Basically, these innovations can be
unite under one name "DJ" (Di
Jay).                                    
 So.                                   
  Why not use functions like this:
 1) load not one, but several small
diy at the same time(why - read on);  
 2) in the editor you can compose them
medley  (two or three patterns from one melo-
diy, three or four from another, etc.)         
 3) make shipment in a single block not
how many melodies with one player (so many
and store more economically and use practical
more precisely.  For example: we ship a block in which
rum 5 melodies.  It takes 16K (one
page) and is used simply: from Basic
or enter codes in a specific cell
melody number and let's start. I wanted to turn on
read another - changed the number...)           
  The savings are also obvious. Let's say
the player weighs 2K, music - 3K. Separately
details 5 melodies weigh (2+3)*5=25 Kb. One
block: 2+(3*5)=17 Kb.                    
 This is just one of the directions that
can be developed. There are others too.       
  I also want to give you an idea about
increasing the number of AU channels. ButTHIS
ONLY A PROJECT. And since I’m not a coder, I can
gu in this matter to be mistaken. Perhaps
what I will say next is ABSURD.            
Why not try run two
three-channel melodies simultaneously. On
interruptions.  How it's done: plays mu-
language, and against its background you are somehow under-
toil (draw, read scroll, play)
you're welcome). Only instead of this "something"
start the second melody?..)              
  If this succeeds, thenmusical re-
daktor can be recorded on 6, 9 channels...    
 Well, that's all. That's enough ideas for today.
Moreover, the last thought is clearly stated
It sounds like my roof is already leaking...      
                                          
 Let me take my leave of this...         
 Goodbye, gentlemen.