On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote: > > On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:37 PM, John Clements wrote: > >> Are you saying that multiple sounds could be occurring at once? This is >> true, but doesn't strike me as a priori unpleasant. > > Yes. Supposed your first tick launches Beethoven's fifth. And the second > prefers Smoke on the Water. They will overlap for a while. > > Now I am too untrained to figure out (without doing the experiment) whether > this will be a pleasant sound or an unpleasant noise. I am just guessing it > won't be pleasant.
Okay, gotcha. My other e-mail about "ongoing" and "momentary" sounds addresses this, I think. I agree that for ongoing sounds, a "state" should say, for instance, which soundtrack is currently playing. John
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