On 8/1/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi MiS. You were recently mentioned to me on the Pd list as a fellow > Pd/Csound user... been having some issues, might contact you off-list... Sure, I also hang out sometimes on #dataflow channel on irc.freenode.org (as MiS). Feel free to write to me. I also fool around with untempered tunings :) I haven't used csound in a while (years!) but I have been getting back to it recently. > I don't know if Csound yet has the ability to act as a DSSI instrument, only > a host, I thought. It will act as a LADSPA plugin, for Audacity and Muse > that I know of (somehow doesn't seem to work with Rosegarden or Ardour for > me). in the scons options buildDSSI says "build DSSI/LADSPA host opcodes". I have not used CSound as a LADSPA/DSSI plugin my understanding is that it can be both. Someone correct me if I am wrong. > But, having played with Csound's granular a good deal, I *highly* recommend > it for anyone interested in that. Using a user-defined waveform is > standard, you can control every aspect, switch between waveforms, do other > effects on the result, and honestly I think it's capable of things no other > program is with granular. I am planning to do a csound rewrite of my (not so) granular pd performance patch. It is not quite granular because I rarely use grains smaller than 500ms but otherwise it is loosely based on some ideas behind the pulsar synthesis. But I use only "granular sampling" technique where I use only live-sampled waveforms (which, nevertheless, is stored in arrays (aka buffers)). > Definitely miles ahead of Reason's Maelstrom. Whatever that is... :) > Like I said, I don't believe it can be a DSSI instrument yet, but it can be > controlled by MIDI through aconnect or qjackctl. and OSC, too. > I've used both the "fog" and "fof2" commands for great granular effects. I > believe "fog" was the one I found most useful. years ago, I had a simple granulator of soundfiles built with the oscil opcode. I had to generate thousands, and even hundreds of thousands, of lines of score, mind you, but it allowed for exactly the control over the playback of grains I wanted (every grain was controlled by a score statement). No, I did not write the score by hand. Today, with kind of CPU power we have, it should be possible to obtain interesting results in real-time and generating the score statements with pd (using [csoundapi~], for instance) although I doubt that pd would be able to provide the kind of resolution one would want for really cool grain clouds (several thousands of events per second). ./MiS _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
