Agreed, MIDI was a very good protocol for limited bandwidth that is now quite limiting when we have far more bandwidth.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Redfern 
>Sent: Aug 21, 2008 1:54 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: Was: Modeled piano- Pianoteq becoming: something else
>
>Also the models in csound offer far more control as you're not limited by
>MIDI, even with VST you're still tied to MIDI to control parameters, most of
>the time with Csound I'm controlling parameters on a much more fine level
>than 0-127, I'm firing off lots of floating point numbers to change things
>on a very subtle level. That's why the next project is to work on
>controlling csound with OSC and see what I can do with that compared to
>using MIDI.
>
>On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Michael Gogins wrote:
>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Timbre is important, but the composer is the king, or rather, silence is
>> the king.
>>
>> Timbre is big in computer music because we have a powerful instrument that
>> affords a great deal of control over timbre. But it affords similar power
>> over every other element of sound and music.
>>
>> I wish computer music would pay as much attention, for example, to harmony.
>> Current mathematical music theory (Tymoczko and Mazzola, to name but two)
>> gives us for the first time the tools to formalize and manipulate harmony,
>> tonality, and atonality as we now do with timbre.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> >From: rasputin 
>> >Sent: Aug 21, 2008 11:52 AM
>> >To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>> >Subject: [Csnd]  Was: Modeled piano- Pianoteq becoming: something else
>> >
>> >
>> >The first listed Objective in the file CsoundVST.csd ("the Silence
>> >orchestra") that comes with the Csound distribution always intrigued me:
>> >
>> > "- Most beautiful sounds"
>> >
>> >I always thought: what does that mean?
>> >
>> >It's dawning on me, thanks to this discussion thread, that there is EQUAL
>> >validity in using modeled or sampled instruments depending on your
>> >compositional goals. For a long time I hung onto the notion that if I was
>> >writing a part that seemed to call for a small brass section, I should
>> look
>> >for the best samples of a small brass section obtainable. Now I realize
>> that
>> >that approach is not the only one...
>> >
>> >Also I remember a remark by Frank Zappa (I think it was in the Real Frank
>> >Zappa Book) to the effect that "timbre is king."
>> >
>> >Please carry on. Most intriguing.
>> >
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