Hi David, A bit on a tangent, but I was thinking about the Nord Modular editor and how it's more like a classic analog modular system than csound with it's opcodes. Perhaps more like a Csound UDO than an opcode in itself. WIth a modular system like Moog's or the Nord, you have sort of public inputs and outputs--things which can be sent around to other modules--and then you also have private configuration options that are only relevant to the algorithm contained within the module--the knobs and sliders. A Csound UDO together with a visual configuration capacity would be very akin to these modular systems. I've been very interested in the workflow of using different hybrid visual and text interfaces. With something like MacCsound, the expression of an algorithm can be done with csound code, while configuration can be done with a UI, and they are separated from each other. Pure graphical visual systems can be great for expressing signal flow and configuration can be easier to both understand and modify, but it can be very difficult for expressing algorithms. Pure text systems can be great for expressing algorithms, but configuration can be very difficult to manage especially as the number of parameters increases. I guess it's also a fine line where these boundaries are, and with the capacity for subroutines (modules, sub-patches, UDO's, functions, or however it appears in different systems), there's lots of different levels of abstraction where to expose parameters and configuarability. Anyways, a bit of an unpolished stream of consciousness; it's a bit late here for me. =) Regarding the original question, I haven't seen a Nord Lead or Modular emulation. I had looked into the Modular patch text before (it's text) and thought of a conversion program to map to Csound UDO's, but never got into it. Something like that though has great potential as you could then convert publicly available patches to Csound Code, giving you a lot of sounds to work with. (Though, I have no idea if there are legal ramifications to such a thing, and it'd be tricky to get the same quality of sound without a lot of fine tuning of the UDO's and also reference sounds to compare with.) It'd be a neat project to put together as a group though. =) Just checked out the Nord Lead manual from their site and on page 11 they have a block diagram that shows the connections of the different modules and the routing capabilities. It seems that the tricky part would be the Morph Group feature of the Nord. steven On 2/8/06, David Akbari wrote: > I was thinking it might be possible to integrate this Nord Emulator > written in Java to Blue or something possibly ... > > > http://inanna.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~swh/Projects/Nord/Editor/ > > otherwise a Nord is just a modular system much like Csound and with > enough study and listening you can surely engineer a "Nord-like" system > in Csound quite trivially. > > > -David > > On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Robson Cozendey wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > Does anyone knows a nord lead emulator in csound? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Robson > > -- > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk >