On Wednesday 22 February 2006 11:48, Carlo Capocasa was like: > Kew-ew-ew-ewlllll... > > Frank, but you've got to admit computer hardware events can be mapped to > other things than just MIDI notes, such as algorithms... yeh? > > What I'm saying is it would be nice to find attract a lot of passionate > violin builders so passionate violinists don't have to learn so much > woodwork. A little is fine, but... Sorry, Carlo, but what you're suggesting is much more like learning scales or composition than instrument building. You have just received replies from two of the prime exponents of the art. What Frank can't do with Pd is possibly not that musically relevant anyway. What Dave does with a screenful of orange and blue text boxes is simply beyond words. These guys have already done much of the work you are talking about, please do not underestimate it. You should also check out Cesare Marilungo's 'zenmind' that was posted here recently. It's still early days, to be sure, but I doubt very much that you will have to code the whole thing from scratch. :) -- cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim
