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Thursday August 7th 2003 01:15 AM PST

Have you ever been working, just blasting through something, only to hit a completely invisible blockade? It happened to me today, and i never saw it coming. I'm workin on a little mixing board in shockwave and everything was actually going good. I had all my loops cut and all me beats laid down. Now it was just a matter of dropping the whole mess into director and assign each sound a different sound channel. Easy right? Well what i didn't count on was director having a undocumented upper sound channel limit. You can only have 8 puppetsounds running at the same time. Well i'm sorry, i need at least 12 and then another 2 for sound effects. WTF. So i dive into documentation. I search and search and search, and find NOTHING. Well then i get an idea. I could drop all my audio into flash and then import the flash into director, that way i can bypass the puppetsound channel limit. Great idea. I spend the better part of 3 hours converting all the audio and making a really cool way that i can trigger sounds WHILE still keeping all the sounds in sync so that i can mix back and forth at random. I drop all this mess into director and find that only 8 of my sounds work. Hmmm is this limits extended to flash as well? Is it a function of macromix.x32? Well i wish somebody out there would write something on it, cause i'm fuckin lost. So i dig back into documentation. So now i am getting pissed. I need to sync sounds and crossfade between them without loosing any sync. So i ditch the flash and start to really look at manual sync. It 1AM and i think i finally have the solution. I've gotta dump all audio that is not being heard and sync everything else on the fly. Its a real bitch cause the time it takes a puppetsound command to execute the sound is already out of sync. So i gotta constantly check all the sounds.

I don't know if any of this is making sense.

Anyway, i think i need some sleep before i am going to be of any use. I'm stumbling around my apartment, and i don't even remember my wife going to sleep. I am in a fuckin daze, and i've got a different client coming over tomorrow to look at something i don't have done. (yet)

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hmm.. that's weird. glad to know you're doing this because i was just starting on a flash app that was going to trigger multiple loops, and i had more than 8 ready to go. strange that macromedia isn't even being general midi compliant... all gm sound cards and apps and whatnot have a minimum of 24 note polyphony.

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