On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 03:07:53PM -0700, David Bellows wrote:
> Here's my idea. I would have several Csound files with the instrument
> definitions and scores: A.csd, B.csd, C.csd. Each of these can be
> played back as any other Csound file.
> 
> And then I'd have a main.csd that would call each of those other
> Csound files and would control when each would start, stop, and the
> volume (maybe tempo?).
> 
> I guess each Csound file would be an instrument?
> 
An off-the-cuff suggestion...  How about splitting each csd file into
"instrument" (not a full orc) and  score. And for each pair add a
"harness" csd that includes both appropriately, with the needed
global settings.  Something like:
 
"myinstr.instr":

instr myinstr
...whatever
endin

and the 'harness', "myinstr.csd":

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
-odac
</CsOptions>

<CsInstruments>

sr	=	48000
ksmps	=	1
0dbfs	=	1

massign 1, "myinstr" ;if you're using MIDI

#include "myinstr.instr"

</CsInstruments>

<CsScore>

;if appropriate:
#include "myinstr.sco

</CsScore>

</CsoundSynthesizer>

.............

Then you create your "master" csd with all the includes you want.
You'd have to sort out some scheme for controlling individual
parameters of each instrument.

I was hoping one could use macros to have the same harness for
all the instruments, but experimentally '#include' and macros
don't like each other at all -- seems you can only use a plain filename.

Maybe that sparks some ideas?

	-- Pete --

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