On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 09:06:37 -0700 (GMT-07:00) Ken Locarnini <renueden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
