3 May
2005
3 May
'05
11:33 a.m.
Alfons Adriaensen wrote:
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:36:29AM -0400, Dave Phillips
wrote:
Well, Csound is being used for just that purpose. Perhaps the original
poster should check out recent traffic on the Csound mail lists.
Considering its suitability for microtonality,
why not design
something around Csound ?
From the origianl post:
>The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is:
>
>1. good enough for decent music production;
> >2. easy to use by non-experts (this is a direct
stab at CSound, or
> better at its lack of a decent GUI, of a standard instrument exchange
> file format and of a decent, centalized library of presets)
>
Csound has no integral GUI, sorry. It does have a set of FLTK-based GUI
widgets which lets you create your own GUI.
The Csound orc file has been and still is the way Csounders exchange
instruments. There are in fact a number of instrument libraries out
there. I think the original poster might not be quite up to date on Csound.
>3. free software.
>
>
Csound is LGPL and has been for some time now.
To add my 0.02 Euro : I'm sure that OSC is the way
to go for this project.
And I'd love to have an 'OSC sequencer' -- something that allows you to
schedule / edit / manipulate arbitrary OSC events, and with a non-destructive
region editor similar to Ardour's.
Sounds cool, I'd like to see that too.
Btw, Rocky was a project with somewhat similar goals, a sequencer for
22-tone ET, using Csound for its rendering engine and Java for its GUI.
Alas, Rocky appears to have disappeared. [Insert obligatory Sylvester
Stallone joke here].
Best,
dp