[racket] sound + universe report: success.

From: John Clements (clements at brinckerhoff.org)
Date: Thu Oct 20 14:51:19 EDT 2011

On Oct 20, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

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> On Oct 20, 2011, at 2:37 PM, John Clements wrote:
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>> 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. 
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> 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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