Re: FLASH: MIDI

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 07:51 PM 1/2/00 , you wrote:


>Anyone where i can find a lesson on playing MIDI files in flash or send

>me a file for an example...Thanks in advance ,   Douglas


I just did that at http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd but not without 

some problems. Possibly my midi file has too much superfluous data. It 

appears to work consistently on PC's, and most of the time on Macs.


Flash will not play MIDI. What you must do is load the midi into another 

frame, which can be a hidden frame. If you are willing to require visitors 

to have the Beatnik plug-in, you can get tight control of the MIDI playback 

by using FS Command. See http://members.tripod.com/NigelR/marc.html for the 

example and then go back to the menu to find tutorial information on Flash 

and Beatnik integration. I did not want to require Beatnik, so my site just 

loads a MIDI file into the hidden frame and allows the user to load a dummy 

MIDI file into the frame to turn off the sound.

Marc Hoffman


Poison Dart Frog Media: Specializing in Flash Animation and Digital Audio 

Production

Our latest Flash job is on display at <http://www.dartfrogmedia.com/rickfrnd>

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