Hi There,
For my doctor's degree thesis I am planning to create a sample library for a
traditional Turkish instrument called "Tanbur". In the beginning I decided
to use Native Instruments Kontakt but, since I'm not touching any
proprietary software I decided to carry this project to Csound platform. As
Kontakt users already know, it's scripting support makes Kontakt a flexible
and powerfull sampler. Since Csound has most of the features of a
programming language, it seems like Csound already has the scripting
support. :)

Tanbur is a complicated instrument. It includes too many picking (Tanbur is
played with a piece of long and hard stuff that is made of Turtle's shell)
techniques and what I want  is to control all the samples taken in any style
of picking. So I'll use layering and this means I need to control the events
like Note On ,Note Off, velocities etc. Also too many samples must be in the
memory at the same time.

Now what I wanna learn is the capabilities of Csound as a big sampler. Is it
possible ?
Thanks.



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Arda EDEN
Cumhuriyet University
Faculty of Fine Arts
Department of Music Technology
Sivas/TURKEY