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What is “Beatnik”?

April 26, 2017beatnik

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What is “Beatnik”?

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“Beatnik” is a general sound plug-in, that takes care not only of MIDI files, but also of all kinds of standard sound formats such as wav, aiff, au. Beatnik also has its own sound format: “rmf” – rich music format. With this you can create sound events on mouse overs and background music or jukebox applications. Beatnik uses the enhanced sound features of a Mac to play all these sound files. It even manages to bring this superior sound quality to the PC by not using the wavetable synthesis of soundcards. The Beatnik plug-in is extremly useful if you’re using Netscape (3.01 or better) on PC or Mac, because it takes care of a whole bunch of sound formats that you encounter on the Web. Beatnik is not yet available for Microsoft Internet Explorer. The rmf sound format can only be created on a Mac so far.