I use it for real-time MIDI input; different instrument numbers respond to 
messages from different controllers.

It's also an alternative to coding p-fields, when the parameters are static, 
but different for each instrument (using if constructions).

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "victor" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 2:48 PM
Subject: [Csnd] Re: Re: A group of identical instruments


>I often wondered what are the applications of this multiple-number
> definition, as I never used that myself. I can't think of any use for it.
>
> Victor
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Oeyvind Brandtsegg" 
> To: 
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 6:43 PM
> Subject: [Csnd] Re: A group of identical instruments
>
>
> when defining instruments, you can assign several instrument numbers
> to one definition like this:
>
> instr 1,2,3,4,5
> ...blabla
> endin
>
> For you score issue, I'm not sure of a solution.
> but if you just want to play all 20 of them simultaneously, you could
> use score macros to define a 20-instrument call.
>
> best
> Oeyvind
>
> 2009/4/3 BERMAN L.I. :
>> Let's say we want to create a group of 20 identical instruments to be 
>> played
>> simultaneously. Does csound have short-cut way to do that rather than 
>> create
>> instr 1, instr 2, ..., instr 20? And even better, does csound have a way 
>> to
>> simply use the next available instrument rather than calling out i1, i2,
>> ..., i20 in the score?
>>
>> Lewis Berman
>>
>>
>
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