Hi,

Has any thought been given to having Csound write its output to a
soundfont, just as it can create single wav files, etc.?  I was
thinking that with such functionality, one could specify a range of
notes, and Csound could synthesize all of the .wav files necessary for
a soundfont covering a certain range of notes for a Csound instrument,
and package them in a soundfont.  Many more possibilities come to
mind, but for now, just to keep things simple, that functionality
alone would be a great start!

Perhaps that sounds a little far-fetched, but just think of how useful
that would be.  Csound could be the ultimate tool for sound-font
creation, given its abilities to manipulate waveforms and eliminate the
nuisance of manual looping with sound file editors, etc.   

Even without changing the Csound sources, the automated creation of
sets of wav files wouldn't be too difficult, just have a script
running in a loop that changes a couple of variables in the Csound
score for each run, or wave file.  Of course, one would still have to
muck about with tools like Swami to create the actual soundfont this
way, if Csound couldn't be modified to go a step further and create
the actual soundfont.

Any thoughs on this? 

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