"i" statements are much more powerful and precise. But if the host doesn't support more precision than MIDI, you might as well use MIDI.

Are you going to embed Csound via the API into the host?

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Matt J. Ingalls" 
>Sent: May 19, 2006 4:30 PM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: [Csnd] commercial sequencer/notation app with csound support
>
>
>Remember Passport's "Master Tracks Pro" and "Encore" applications?  well 
>they still exist, now owned by GVOX [ http://gvox.com ]
>
>i've been working for gvox, about to do a major overhaul to modernize both 
>applications and i have suggested we add csound hosting to both.
>
>Beyond my own personal interests, adding csound support seems like the 
>easiest way to get digital audio and synthesis going for their products.
>i would guess an attraction for csound users would be to automate controls 
>with a higher resolution that MIDI. [ i would assume we would keep notes 
>as MIDI, not as csound "i" statements, we already have 'blue', right? ] i 
>have ideas for a GUI instrument editor, but that would be much farther 
>down the road..
>
>would this be useful or interesting to any of you?
>
>if so, do you have any feature requests or suggestions of implementation?
>
>thanks,
>m
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On Fri, 19 May 2006, Michael Gogins wrote:

> "i" statements are much more powerful and precise.
> But if the host doesn't support more precision than MIDI, you might as 
> well use MIDI.

they currently are MIDI-only -- but as i mentioned i am about to do a 
major overhaul/rewrite, so things can change.

i guess it's not that programmatically to send MIDI or note statements, 
and having finer degree of pitch would be nice [ even to be able to 
play quarter tones would be something rare -- Sibelius 
lets you do this, but since it is MIDI pitch bend is used and you can't 
play chords with quarter tones! ]

but i do have a hard time seeing how an instrument with many p-fields 
working graphically, at that point a text file becomes easier!

> > Are you going to embed Csound via the API into the host? >

of course!

-m

Project sounds great, Matt, probably will be a lot of fun.  The best of 
luck with it!

I'd like to put a vote in for microtonal scale support using Scala[1] 
.SCL[2] files.  You would make a lot of people happy.  :-)

- Dave

[1] http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/
[2] http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/scala/scl_format.html

Matt J. Ingalls wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 May 2006, Michael Gogins wrote:
> 
>> "i" statements are much more powerful and precise.
>> But if the host doesn't support more precision than MIDI, you might as 
>> well use MIDI.
> 
> they currently are MIDI-only -- but as i mentioned i am about to do a 
> major overhaul/rewrite, so things can change.
> 
> i guess it's not that programmatically to send MIDI or note statements, 
> and having finer degree of pitch would be nice [ even to be able to play 
> quarter tones would be something rare -- Sibelius lets you do this, but 
> since it is MIDI pitch bend is used and you can't play chords with 
> quarter tones! ]
> 
> but i do have a hard time seeing how an instrument with many p-fields 
> working graphically, at that point a text file becomes easier!
> 
>> > Are you going to embed Csound via the API into the host? >
> 
> of course!
> 
> -m