I'd very much like to hear Gab's view of the pros and cons of going this
route.

Back in the "old days," there were a number of significant differences
between CsoundAV and canonical. As a Windows and live-performance person,
this led me to prefer CsoundAV.

Among the differences:

1) In CsoundAV, FLTK worked.
2) In CsoundAV, MIDI worked.
3) CsoundAV incorporated a useful, if partial, front end (including
user-friendly settings for environment variables and latency).
4) CsoundAV allowed for all current driver types (Windows).
5) CsoundAV came as a single .exe, making a super-compact distro. (This was
a *very* attractive feature for me as an average user.)
6) Latency and stutter were better in CsoundAV.
7)IIRC, CsoundAV was coded in a different language (C+?), which apparently
was responsible for some of the better realtime performance.

I know the situation has changed with Csound5. I'm equally sure, however,
that a "native" CsoundAV would likely have (at least for my purposes) some
of the same advantages it used to.

I'd also be interested in knowing which of these (or other) items of
difference between CsoundAV and canonical might be altered should CsoundAV
become cross-platform.

Gab and others? Comments?

(Disclaimer: I fully appreciate the - yet to be fully realized - value of a
canonical, cross-platform Csound. However, the pros and cons of different
extant versions IMO *must* be thoroughly discussed, argued and appreciated.)

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Victor Lazzarini" 
To: "Developer discussions" ;
; "Developer discussions"

Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] vst4cs on linux


> Now, what about instead of converting CsoundAV,
> integrating/merging its features with the
> Canonical?
>
> Victor
>
> >
> > Thanks a lot Andres!...
> > I'm going to convert (most of) CsoundAV to Csound5.
> > Hope it will work in other platforms with small
> > modifications...
> >
> > I will make the sources public when I will reach a stable
> > version on Win32.
> >
> > best
> >
> > Gabriel
> >
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