Hi all,

I just joined the list, and although I have been doing music for awhile I am
pretty new to using csound. I picked up a copy of the csound book this week, and
have been reading a few hours a night.

I have been learning the language and building simple synths using the chanctrl
opcode, which allows control/tweaking of instrument parameters in real time with
an external usb midi controller while a score is being played. I've been having
alot of fun with that.

I have had a few ideas for synthesizer design which I was going to implement in
c++/wxwindows/alsa, but after being introduced to csound, i think its possible
to implement the ideas using csound as the synthesis engine.

I was wondering if anyone has played with designing a midi controllable
intrument playable in real time in csound, and building a GUI sequencer to
generate the midi messages to control it.

I think one of the first things I'd like to do is build a basic drum machine
like sequencer, with each part driving its own intrument synth via midi.
Serveral csound intruments and effect units, with midi control for parameters
and dynamic routing, would be written as well.

I'd like to use my external midi controller to communicate with the GUI
sequencer, and have the GUI act as a midi thru relaying them to csound, as well
as generating midi notes itself.

Im trying to put together a toolkit for live linux laptop/microatx sets, and
just want to know if anyone has played with doing this or if open source tools
exist for controlling csound in this manner.

Also, I haven't yet done much performance testing, but I'd be interested in how
many instruments people have had success running simultaneously in real time! I
haven't yet been able to guage the speed of csound for intense processing.

I'm considering putting together a microatx p4 3.2ghz/800mhz fsb/512mb ram for
live sets(laptops with the speed I want are too expensive right now), and am
intersted in how many intruments can run on various cpus speeds. 

I've heard athlon's are really nice for csound, but in looking up performance
stats, it seems like p4 out perform athlons in floating point math, where as
athlons out perform p4 in MMX instructions. Any opinions?

Has anyone ran csound on a 64bit or 32bit SMP machine with substancial increased
performance?

Thanks!
nathand

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