Is QuickTime installed?
Yes, its installed. As I understand it, the Noteplayer control doesn't
use QuickTime on Windows, but uses some DirectX business instead. And
it appears that whatever the DirectX implemetation is, it doesn't
implement drum kits the same way that QuickTime does.
Apparently there was a workaround in which someone came up with a way
to play notes without the noteplayer by using QuickTime declares. I
haven't been able to find example code of this, but I've looked into
this briefly to see what it would involve to do it from scratch and it
looked extremely ugly!
Personally, I'd rather use the DirectX way anyway, because it seems
simpler and I wouldn't need to send the .dll from the QuickTime SDK
along with the built application. From what I can tell, to access the
drum sounds I would have to send notes to MIDI channel 10, which is
where drums are customarily put in MIDI. The RB noteplayer control
doesn't have direct channel control, but someone apparently figured out
that the first noteplayer control placed in an RB application is
channel 1 and the second is channel 2, and so forth. ...until channel
10 is reached, in which case it conveniently skips to channel 11!!!!!!
Thus no drums!
Ron Benditt
Alien Apparatus Company, Inc.
http://www.alienapparatus.com
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