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 <dakbari@gmail.com> 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
>
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