FWIW, my sound system does all this.

Jay

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:51 PM, John Clements
<cleme...@brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> 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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