Some of the sounds seem weird / have bad timing / sound bad / play forever. Why did you make it like that?
Weird Metronome uses MIDI to create sound. MIDI made it easier for me to write the program and deliver it in such a small package and still have it sound pretty good. Unfortunately, there were also some trade-offs. The way MIDI works is that your computer knows how to make sounds that sound like certain instrument. There’s a standard called General MIDI that says which instruments it should know how to play. I took advantage of the fact that most sound cards use that standard to set up a list of the fifty percussion instruments that are available in General MIDI. That way all my program has to do is tell the sound card to “play Mute Cuico at volume 77” and the sound card does so to the best of its abilities. I don’t have direct control over what actual sound is produced. The point I’m trying to make is that some sound cards may have weird MIDI setups. Some instruments may never stop playing or may have a little delay before the sound starts that makes the beat not fit in right or any n
