Yes, part of the reason I did not put too much work into the Garritan issue
earlier was that I was reluctant to using a closed source instrument in
ImproSculpt. An open source orchestra would definitely be a great thing.

About loading time:
I wonder, do you edit the csound instrument code, or just the orchestra code
between each csound run ? If you're only editing the score, it would
probably make sense to just send the score as realtime events from python to
csound. You can send the whole score in one chunk, with the same offset
(start) times as in your score file, and the score events will be played
just as if you restarted csound with that score. This way you could just
leave csound running all the time.
If you need to edit the orchestra however, you would still need to restart
csound. But experimentation with instrument design could possibly be done in
a more minimal setup that does not take too long to load (?)

best
Oeyvind


2007/12/5, Tim Mortimer <timmortimer@d2.net.au>:
>
>
>
>
> Oeyvind Brandtsegg-2 wrote:
> >
> > I seem to recall that we discussed this some months ago (?).
> >
>
> Yes we did, & i pulled up some code i made back then tonight for the first
> time - i thought i was able to achieve the .fxb load? if so, i'll post it
> to
> you to have a look. maybe not. will double check in next few days....(I
> owe
> you a few Oeyvind...)
>
> previously, my midi onslaught hadn't been an issue, but now I want to load
> all 64 instruments in the garritan player! (i'd previously restricted
> myself
> to just 18, & max dealt with that all "in house" courtesy vst~ object & i
> was using csound~ as my midi transmitter!)
>
> The problem with running the vst inside csound however is that if i have
> to
> load all the banks on input (manually or otherwise) every time i run
> csound,
> that's a long wait! & pretty unproductive.
>
> I tend to apply small changes in csound, render, & then see how it sounds
> (that's a neat pun!). That's the kind of basic "modus operandi" i'm in,
> using python to more or less jump from "task to task", & manage the orcs &
> scos..... the constant reloading of samples by kontakt player on startup
> would not bode well for that process. do it once in the supplied vst host,
> &
> target it, just as you would from Sibelius or whatever.....
>
> I got some basic midi targetting working better from max tonight to keep
> me
> going - but i'm still keen to go as totally Csound / Python based as
> possible.....
>
> Keep one windows machine to run the odd commercial or "home mastering"
> app,
> & do the "real musicians" work somewhere else.... ; ).
>
> I did write to garritan once. do they take freaks like me seriously?
>
> we need an "open source orchestra" basically. in wav & pvx format.......
>
>
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