its kinda crazy, am at the studio and found an old notebook with a beat matrix pattern drawn out for one of my drum loops like 20 years ago. i think the program that was used was called awave, it was a simple program, no midi just painting with waves on a grid. to change the pitch of an event, the mouse was dragged up or down or a keypress on selected event would also work. seems like i used cool edit pro and cakewalk at first for live audio recording in realtime and the latency 20 years ago didnt seem as bad as it has been in the last 10 years at times. i guess its called operating system bloat.
I might have developed a solution to the message handling waste of cpu for unneeded message checking all those years ago.
so neat to find an old notebook, it kinda brings back the memories of what i need to program. its like i had a great idea and maybe i can use that idea to make things work the way they ought to instead of the way they work for the sake of every reason besides why i need things to work, lol.
anyways, thanks for the info patrice, @Dan. yes 1 GHz is better than 66MHz, these things ought to be smokin as dsp.