15 Sep
2003
15 Sep
'03
5:31 p.m.
On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:06:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
Ken Locarnini <renueden(a)earthlink.net> wrote:
Hi Atte,
I've used Csound alot in the past too. Mostly command line from
Common Music which I like alot. I'm trying to go more real-time
though now. I just decided I would try and get into PD!
Sounds like me two months ago. Maybe you make it (I didn't) :-)
How is your orchestra set-up. Do you have 1 synth per
instrument per
channel?
One long (1600+ lines) .csd file with
* one "patch/synth" per instr which gives one one patch per program
change
* a few global (always on) fx instruments
* a special "output instrument" that does a little eq + compression
* patching/routing with global variables.
Each USB keyboard sends on a seperate midi channel, but they all access
the same pool of patches. Since the Evolution will let you assign a
program change to each of the 0-9 buttons (and remember them after
poweroff) I always use the same Evolution for the same thing (one for
pads for instance) and program each button to point to different
instr's.
I always had a hard time in Csound as I wanted to have
1 synth per 16
channels and have them all have their own set of presets.
You could run multiple instances of csound, which might (or might
not...) give relatively poorer performance. But I don't understand why
this configuration is paramount to you..??!?
PD supports multiple midi ports so I thought that would
probably work,
though learning another language will be tough as I know Csound well.
Be prepared that pd doesn't handle polyphonic patches gracefully IMHO.
I also want the graphic routines, and as you know
Csound dosen't have
the Opengl stuff in Linux, (yet).
Might be, never messed with that...
I also don't understand the status of Csound right
now. Is anyone
actually working on coding Csound5?
AFAIK the guys are working like mad, cleaning up code (and API's?) and
preparing for csound5. I even thing it's for download somewhere, maybee
sourceforge somewhere. You might also be pleased to hear that csound
recently turned GPL. There are still a few contributed opcodes that
haven't been GPL'ed (scanned opcodes for instance) but that's probl.
gonna happen soon from what I hear.
--
peace, love & harmony
Atte