Yes, your understanding of chn modes (1,2,3) is the same as mine. best Oeyvind 2008/6/19, Joseph Sanger : > Thank you Oeyvind, > > Maybe I didn't look closely enough, but perhaps this could be written more > explicitly in the manual? I see now what "implies declaring the channel with > mode 1" means, but your explanation is much clearer. The text for these > opcodes seems a little terse. > > Presumably, declaring a channel with mode 1 using chnget, and then using the > same channel with mode 2 using chnset, will make that channel "mode 3" (both > read and write)? I'll be trying this when I get home later anyway, I'm "at > work" at the moment. > > Joe > > > Oeyvind Brandtsegg wrote: > > You can declare them in the instrument too. And you don't even need to > > explicitly declare them; > > - the first time you use chnget the channel will be implicitly > > declared (read mode) > > - the first time you use chnset the channel will be implicitly > > declared (write mode) > > This means that you can just start using them without any declaration. > > If you feel it is more clear, and feel more safe by explicitly > > declaring the channels, that will work well too. > > > > best > > Oeyvind > > > > 2008/6/19, Joseph Sanger : > > > > > Hello there list, > > > > > > Just a quick question... I've never used chn before. I intend to use it > > > purely within csound, not using the API. > > > > > > Do chn channels need to be declared in the orchestra header, or is it > > > possible to declare them within instruments? I'd like to (for instance) > pass > > > a string to an instrument from the score, and use that as a channel's > name. > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > PS Many thanks to Mr. Sateler for the Debian package, works very nicely > on > > > DebianPPC! > > > > > > > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > > > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe > > > csound" > > > > > > > > > > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe > csound" > > > > > > > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe > csound" >