> Tito, what do you think Csound 6 should be like?

I'm not a great planner. However, perhaps Csound6 should simplify the
(musical) life of the Csounders and a possible side effect is to be
useful for other humans and/or advanced animals.

There are csounders that use only csound, rt and/or offline:

    csound supersynth.csd

"wow"   "amazed!"   "suuuper"   "sorry, wrong number"   "wonderful!!"

These guys doesn't want to use other languages for different causes
and desire only some facility/utility (that exists in other languages).
In this case is enough csound5.23 + new opcodes + new instr etc
(or csound6, csound7, csound8, like firefox :)

There are csounders that write orc files using another language,
for example `haskore'. Simple, but there is a compromise

  foreign -> write csound orc -> run csound

Idem for sco files.

Real time is limited (ksmps grid), for example `grace' uses sco files (compromise).

I think that it is useful to separate the parts and provide the API,
subsequently to strengthen those weaker:

  - csound engine
  - csound parser
  - csound compiler
  - csound opcodes library (like Victor's SndObj)
  - csound instruments (de)allocable on the fly
  - csound scheduler

The csound command is only a possibility.

(de)allocable instruments + zak/flowgraphopcodes/etc is a possible
dynamic "graph".

A csounder thinks that llvm is good; ok, she uses it and bypass the
csound compiler/engine/... Another csounder can use an external
scheduler, a parser in another language, etc. Others write
some dsp, call appendOpcode, create a tree for the new instrument,
compile and alloc it.

The use is the best source of ideas and new features.

> I must say I use functional programming but I abhor the syntax of Lisp
> and Scheme. I much prefer a C type syntax. Of all the many languages
> I've used, I actually find Python easiest to write, then C/C++, then
> Lua.

I like to create sounds from scratch in common lisp, not necessarily
with csound, sc3, etc, inside and *outside* the grid built by
engineers, scientists, number-mans, etc, writing and rewriting the
language during the composition. It is my way, I am only a guitarist.

tito

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