From jjdavis Sent Thu, Oct 23rd 1997, 23:27
From jjdavis Sent Thu, Oct 23rd 1997, 23:27
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:19:26 -0700, Brian Behlendorf <xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> said: > >There's this rather interesting new Netscape/IE plugin called "Beatnik", >put out by Thomas Dolby (yeah, that guy)'s company called "Headspace". >It's basically best thought of as a software general MIDI player, but with >many more baseline sounds and effects, and the ability to use downloaded >samples too. Anyways, there's two rather minimalist and short track-ettes >by Bochum Welt on there, which I thought would appeal to people on this >list (look for 'Gianluigi Di Costanzo'), The best part about this is that >the downloads are made *really* small - and even if you want to use lots of >custom samples, you end up with smaller files than if you just used mpeg or >whatever. yeah, both of these tracks "Web Theme" and "Relaxing On A Spaceship" were originally made for the official site Bochum Welt: Technology and Nostalgia http://www.xnet.com/~jjdavis/bw/ i know downloading plugins is a chore, but beatnik truly is one that's worth getting. the sound is actually scored and played interactively through beatnik, not compressed or anything, so the files can be really small (like 832 bytes!!!!). "realxing" plays as an ambient background on the discography and news pages, and "web theme" can be accessed from the main entry page. this is the technology that gian used for the pacman theme. he's working on some more tracks, and hopefully i might have some more exclusive mini- tracks soon. stop by, lots of new reviews, interviews, blahblahblah. peeeeeeeeeeeeeece, NP: funkstorung: MAS 1.08 D2 Jeff Davis <pHlow> ____--~~~~~~vvvv~~~~ oooo812.831.7846 xxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx____---- ( ( ( vvvv ~~~~~~ooooooooooooo ___----( ( \ \ \ \ \ vvv ooooooooooooooooooo ____---- ( \ \ \ \ \ \ \ http://www.xnet.com/~jjdavis/