I like the command line flags that allow one to
route midi messages to the proper pfields.

--midi-velocity-amp=4

for example.  I want to use these for all
orchestras, even those that will eventually
be rendered to disk, because the auditioning
capability is so powerful.

Since these instruments will likely have more
pfields than what midi requires, is there a way
to specify defaults?

sort of like:

p8	defaults	135
p9 	defaults	122

This having no effect if the value is already present?

Thanks,

Tobiah

Andres Cabrera wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's called mididefault:
> http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/mididefault.html

Thank you.

Michael Gogins wrote:
> You can use the pset opcode to do this.

You know, I stared at the doc page for that
opcode, thinking that it might be what I wanted,
but there were things about the entry that turned
me away before trying the opcode.

The overall description:

pset — Defines and initializes numeric arrays at orchestra load time. 

I didn't understand this.

It did mention some midi stuff though, but:

"When an instrument is triggered from MIDI it only gets p1 and p2 from 
the event, and p3, p4, etc. will receive the actual preset values."

I thought, "wait, I want the p4 and p5 to come from MIDI!".  It
seems that a zero value bypasses the assignment.  Is that true?
In that case, the example:

pset 0,0,3,4,5,6  ; pfield substitutes

sort of retroactively explains the documentation.

Thanks,

Toby

Andres Cabrera wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's called mididefault:

This works fine.  I don't know how I missed it.
The only strange thing is that I still get pfield
errors:

WARNING: instr 1 p9 illegal for MIDI

The pset opcode may work out better,
because I like the fact that I can denote
all of the defaults on one line.

Thanks,

Toby