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 > > > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users > -- Jay McCarthy <j...@cs.byu.edu> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/users