Re: [freesci-develop] Questions about the sound system

[Lars Skovlund]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:16:24AM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> Hi Christoph,
> 
> Thanks for your fast and complete answers :)
> 
> 2008/1/10, Christoph Reichenbach:
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 05:10:18PM +0100, Jordi Vilalta wrote:
> > > - the sequencer prepares the device midi commands
> >
> >   Sometimes.  The sequencer accepts MIDI commands and translates them
> > into appropriate data for the respective device.  (For the MT-32, it
> > leaves the events untranslated.  For the adlib emulator, it modifies
> > some state.)
> 
> This is another doubt I had. Which soundtracks are defined on the data
> files? 

It depends on each sound file, actually. Each file contains a channel
table for each possible hardware device.

> From what you say, one can understand that all games have a native
> MT-32 soundtrack. What about general midi?

General MIDI is only supported in SCI1.1 onwards. It is simply yet
another hardware device, handled like the others (as is MT-32).

Lars