There is a way to do this with instruments and existing keywords, but it requires having a control signal dispatching instrument that sends control signals on to target instruments. It's not that hard to do. You could use a named instrument "controller".

Did you try this and find some problems?

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Steven Yi 
>Sent: Jul 11, 2006 6:15 AM
>To: Developer discussions 
>Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Future of Csound
>
>Hi Michael,
>
>Thanks for your post!  I think it's a good time now for us all to take
>a bit of a step back now that many of the goals of Csound5 are
>accomplished to see where we're at and where we'd like to go.
>
>Like Erik I consider myself more of a user than a developer, though
>one who likes to do a bit of code too when useful.  Lately I am
>thinking one thing that would be very big would be to introduce a new
>Score statement to do control signals.  Something like:
>
>k start end "sigName" sigType values...
>
>So that one could write control rate signals for parameter automation
>in the score.  sigType would be something like:
>
>0 - linear
>1 - exponential
>etc.
>
>with values being x,y pairs or whatever matches similar line
>generating opcodes are available in csound (line, linseg, expseg,
>transeg, etc.).
>
>Signame could be such that if it starts with gk, then it'd be a gk
>signal, if it started with z it could be a zak signal, otherwise it
>could be a buss signal. (There'd have to be a better way to choose,
>maybe an extra param to choose what variant of signal).
>
>I don't think there's a way to do this with just instruments and
>i-statements.  Having this facility would make my life also a lot
>easier for implementing parameter automation in blue. =)
>
>I was thinking the other day that we don't have the facility to have a
>loop instantiate multiple copies of the same oscilator, and thought
>there isn't really an idea of scoped-variables in csound, which might
>be useful.
>
>I'm not sure how much I like the idea of Lua as a orch language as I
>find that coding csoundinstruments is not really that much of a
>bottle-neck in composing and that the existing language, while not
>completely clean, is fairly efficient to code in.  I would rather have
>the parser redone so that we can extend the language to encompass
>for-loops, arrays, etc.  (BTW: John, I remember there being talk of a
>possible student of yours doing a project this summer to implement the
>parser.  Is this still happening? If not, after this weekend when we
>move into an apartment here in Warsaw, I should have a good bit amount
>of time to put work into getting the parser going.)
>
>Regarding the embedding of Csound mentioned in your article in a way
>that nyquist or CLM is done, I think that goes back to a discussion we
>had here where the graph of instruments and notelist, current time,
>etc. would all have to be able to stay in memory and programmatically
>alterable.  That could be done, but I think would take a fair amount
>of work though might naturally happen in conjunction with parser work.
>
>steven
>
>
>
>On 7/11/06, Michael Gogins  wrote:
>> A while ago I said I would post my suggestions for the future of Csound, and
>> for managing Csound development. Here they are.
>>
>> Best,
>> Mike
>>
>>
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