Sorry for the late reply, I've been on holiday!

On 24 December 1998 Matt J. Ingalls wrote:

> that doesnt sound good, but at least steady soundfield -- but
>would you prefer typical BEAST stereo-pair diffusion?

Personally, I don't think it matters what spatial configuration a composer
uses, so long as the use of space is appropriate and is well integrated with
the other aspects of the composition. A lot of stereo pieces by UK based
composers are written with diffusion in mind, and therefore work very well
through a diffusion system.
I think that the choices made about the spacial aspect of the work should be
purposeful and musical. The best ambisonic and 8-channel pieces I have heard
have been successful because the composer exploited the musical
possibilities of the medium in an appropriate and integrated way. I think
that some of the worst 8-channel pieces I have heard were only made because
there happened to be an ADAT in the studio!


>> BTW Matt - any chance you (or someone) could fix the ppc MIDI opcodes
fairly
>> soon-ish .... pleeease...
> care to give an itemized list of broken opcodes?
> i dont have any MIDI gear to test for the next few weeks..
> the code is on mills ftp if anyone would like to take a look.


Using v.3.484 on ppc -

The following just give 0.00 as output:
notnum, veloc, ampmidi and midictrl

and these give 'no legal opcode'
chpress, midictrlsc and chanctrl

there are some which I didn't test however.

regards,

jb