Hi Forrest,

Thanks for replying. As some background to my issue, this is part of a
University project. I'm building an application for Visually Impaired people
to help them navigate Microsoft Excel spreadsheets. One of the functions is
to "sonify" a range of data. This will help the user to understand if any
patterns exist in the data or there exists text / blank values. An Excel
macro parses the data range, creates the .csd file and performs a shell
command to CSound.exe.

The data range used in this example is as follows:
81
86
*blank*
45
text
text
10
90

I would like a note to be played every 3/4 second to run for 1/2 second. The
value for the numerical values is scaled based on the minimum / maximum of
the range. I'm use a base min of 41 and a base max of 100. So in this
example the value of 81 produces 93.36 (41 * (90 - 81) + 100 * (81 - 10)) /
(90 - 10).

My hope is to play a different instrument for numerical values, another for
blanks and a third for text. Unfortunately, when I execute the .csd file.
The instruments don't play when I would hope them to. 

It sounds as though the bagpipe (instrument 110) plays for the 6th element
only, whereas I'm trying to get it to play for both the 5th and 6th, as
these are both text values.

There's obviously be something wrong with my code. I sourced the code my
University tutor based on a single instrument. I then tried to enhance it to
3 instruments. Unfortunately, it's not producing the desired effect.

Can you please advise how I should change my code in order for it to play
the correct instrument based on the example range?

Thanks very much,

Dan



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I just ran the CSD here on Windows 10 and it produced a sound every
0.75 seconds using the built-in Microsoft MIDI synth.

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Dan Farr-Smith  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post to the forum, I'm very new to Csound. I'm doing a
> University project to sonify data in an Excel table so that visually
> impaired people can listen to the sound of the values in the table.
>
> I would like to use 3 different instruments to represent:
>
> 1, numerical values
> 2, blank values
> 3, string values
>
> For the numerical values I'm interpolating the frequency between 41 and
> 100Hz based on the minimum and maximum values in the range.
>
> I'm having difficulty in getting the different instruments to play at the
> correct time. I thought instrument 2 would play when i2 is stated in the
> CsScore and instrument 3 would play for i3. Unfortunately, this is not
> what's happening. The instruments are not playing when I thought they would.
> I believe it's something to do with the setting up of the instruments, as I
> simply expanded my code from one that worked for a single instrument.
>
> By the way, I'm use a shell command to execute the csound.exe and .csd.
>
> If someone could help me out, it'd be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
> Code:
>
> 
> 
> -Q0 -o dac --midioutfile=C:\Sonification\midiout.mid dm6
> 
>
> 
> sr=44100
> kr=4410
> ksmps = 10
> nchnls = 1
>
> instr 1
> ichn    =       1 ; channel
> midiout 192, 1, 1, 1
> outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
> noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
> endin
>
> instr 2
> ichn    =       2 ; channel
> midiout 192, 2, 125, 1
> outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
> noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
> endin
>
> instr 3
> ichn    =       3 ; channel
> midiout 192, 3, 110, 1
> outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
> noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
> endin
>
> 
>
> 
> ;P1  P2 P3      P4              P5      P6      P7      ; Original Value
> i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
> i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
> i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ; blank
> i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
> i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
> i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ; text
> i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
> i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
> e
> 
> 
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I don't remember the GM MIDI instrument numbers but it played 3
different timbres to my ear.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Forrest Curo  wrote:
> Was it using the sound the guy wanted for each csound instrument? (& hadn't
> he just as well stop resetting the sounds every time he calls an
> instrument?)
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>>
>> I just ran the CSD here on Windows 10 and it produced a sound every
>> 0.75 seconds using the built-in Microsoft MIDI synth.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Dan Farr-Smith 
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > This is my first post to the forum, I'm very new to Csound. I'm doing a
>> > University project to sonify data in an Excel table so that visually
>> > impaired people can listen to the sound of the values in the table.
>> >
>> > I would like to use 3 different instruments to represent:
>> >
>> > 1, numerical values
>> > 2, blank values
>> > 3, string values
>> >
>> > For the numerical values I'm interpolating the frequency between 41 and
>> > 100Hz based on the minimum and maximum values in the range.
>> >
>> > I'm having difficulty in getting the different instruments to play at
>> > the
>> > correct time. I thought instrument 2 would play when i2 is stated in the
>> > CsScore and instrument 3 would play for i3. Unfortunately, this is not
>> > what's happening. The instruments are not playing when I thought they
>> > would.
>> > I believe it's something to do with the setting up of the instruments,
>> > as I
>> > simply expanded my code from one that worked for a single instrument.
>> >
>> > By the way, I'm use a shell command to execute the csound.exe and .csd.
>> >
>> > If someone could help me out, it'd be much appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Dan
>> >
>> > Code:
>> >
>> > 
>> > 
>> > -Q0 -o dac --midioutfile=C:\Sonification\midiout.mid dm6
>> > 
>> >
>> > 
>> > sr=44100
>> > kr=4410
>> > ksmps = 10
>> > nchnls = 1
>> >
>> > instr 1
>> > ichn    =       1 ; channel
>> > midiout 192, 1, 1, 1
>> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> > endin
>> >
>> > instr 2
>> > ichn    =       2 ; channel
>> > midiout 192, 2, 125, 1
>> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> > endin
>> >
>> > instr 3
>> > ichn    =       3 ; channel
>> > midiout 192, 3, 110, 1
>> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> > endin
>> >
>> > 
>> >
>> > 
>> > ;P1  P2 P3      P4              P5      P6      P7      ; Original Value
>> > i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
>> > i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
>> > i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ; blank
>> > i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
>> > i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
>> > i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ; text
>> > i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
>> > i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
>> > e
>> > 
>> > 
>> >
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I looked into it further and I'm also not getting i3 until the 2nd
one. The problem is related to the code but it's deceptive. The issue
is that midiout runs at perf-time, outic at init-time, and noteondur2
turns the note on at init-time and detects for note-off during
perf-time.  Because of the order of operations, the noteondur2 will
send it's note-on during init time, but the program change message
from midiout happens afterwards at perf-time.  This explains why note
5 (the first i3) does not sound as a bagpipe, but the second one does,
since the second one runs the note on the channel with the program
change already in effect from the previous note.

Looking through code I did not see any opcodes that function like
midiout at init-time.

A workaround: create an instrument that does the program changes and
run it at the start of the project (duration could be 0.01, or code
within the instrument could turn the instrument off after running once
at perf-time).  Then, offset the generated notes start at 0.01 instead
of starting from zero.

For users/developers: should we add a midiouti opcode that runs only
at init-time?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Forrest Curo  wrote:
> What was bothering him was that the 5th & 6th lines below were supposed to
> be the same timbre, but weren't:
> i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
> i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
> i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ; blank
> i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
> i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
> <--------------- i3
> i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ; text
> <-------- also i3
> i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
> i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
>
> (?)
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>>
>> I don't remember the GM MIDI instrument numbers but it played 3
>> different timbres to my ear.
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Forrest Curo 
>> wrote:
>> > Was it using the sound the guy wanted for each csound instrument? (&
>> > hadn't
>> > he just as well stop resetting the sounds every time he calls an
>> > instrument?)
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I just ran the CSD here on Windows 10 and it produced a sound every
>> >> 0.75 seconds using the built-in Microsoft MIDI synth.
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Dan Farr-Smith 
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > This is my first post to the forum, I'm very new to Csound. I'm doing
>> >> > a
>> >> > University project to sonify data in an Excel table so that visually
>> >> > impaired people can listen to the sound of the values in the table.
>> >> >
>> >> > I would like to use 3 different instruments to represent:
>> >> >
>> >> > 1, numerical values
>> >> > 2, blank values
>> >> > 3, string values
>> >> >
>> >> > For the numerical values I'm interpolating the frequency between 41
>> >> > and
>> >> > 100Hz based on the minimum and maximum values in the range.
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm having difficulty in getting the different instruments to play at
>> >> > the
>> >> > correct time. I thought instrument 2 would play when i2 is stated in
>> >> > the
>> >> > CsScore and instrument 3 would play for i3. Unfortunately, this is
>> >> > not
>> >> > what's happening. The instruments are not playing when I thought they
>> >> > would.
>> >> > I believe it's something to do with the setting up of the
>> >> > instruments,
>> >> > as I
>> >> > simply expanded my code from one that worked for a single instrument.
>> >> >
>> >> > By the way, I'm use a shell command to execute the csound.exe and
>> >> > .csd.
>> >> >
>> >> > If someone could help me out, it'd be much appreciated.
>> >> >
>> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >
>> >> > Dan
>> >> >
>> >> > Code:
>> >> >
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> > -Q0 -o dac --midioutfile=C:\Sonification\midiout.mid dm6
>> >> > 
>> >> >
>> >> > 
>> >> > sr=44100
>> >> > kr=4410
>> >> > ksmps = 10
>> >> > nchnls = 1
>> >> >
>> >> > instr 1
>> >> > ichn    =       1 ; channel
>> >> > midiout 192, 1, 1, 1
>> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> > endin
>> >> >
>> >> > instr 2
>> >> > ichn    =       2 ; channel
>> >> > midiout 192, 2, 125, 1
>> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> > endin
>> >> >
>> >> > instr 3
>> >> > ichn    =       3 ; channel
>> >> > midiout 192, 3, 110, 1
>> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> > endin
>> >> >
>> >> > 
>> >> >
>> >> > 
>> >> > ;P1  P2 P3      P4              P5      P6      P7      ; Original
>> >> > Value
>> >> > i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
>> >> > i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
>> >> > i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ;
>> >> > blank
>> >> > i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
>> >> > i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
>> >> > i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ;
>> >> > text
>> >> > i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
>> >> > i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
>> >> > e
>> >> > 
>> >> > 
>> >> >
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>> >> > features
>> >> > can
>> >> > be posted here
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That's possible but fluid introduces a bit of load time for the SF2.
If that's okay for the requirements, then it's a fine solution. But
the midiout issues should still be sorted out, IMO.

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM, Forrest Curo  wrote:
> Could just generate the general midi sounds directly in csound via the fluid
> opcodes? (I know there are many ways to do things, but it seems like a much
> simpler approach.)
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>>
>> I looked into it further and I'm also not getting i3 until the 2nd
>> one. The problem is related to the code but it's deceptive. The issue
>> is that midiout runs at perf-time, outic at init-time, and noteondur2
>> turns the note on at init-time and detects for note-off during
>> perf-time.  Because of the order of operations, the noteondur2 will
>> send it's note-on during init time, but the program change message
>> from midiout happens afterwards at perf-time.  This explains why note
>> 5 (the first i3) does not sound as a bagpipe, but the second one does,
>> since the second one runs the note on the channel with the program
>> change already in effect from the previous note.
>>
>> Looking through code I did not see any opcodes that function like
>> midiout at init-time.
>>
>> A workaround: create an instrument that does the program changes and
>> run it at the start of the project (duration could be 0.01, or code
>> within the instrument could turn the instrument off after running once
>> at perf-time).  Then, offset the generated notes start at 0.01 instead
>> of starting from zero.
>>
>> For users/developers: should we add a midiouti opcode that runs only
>> at init-time?
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Forrest Curo 
>> wrote:
>> > What was bothering him was that the 5th & 6th lines below were supposed
>> > to
>> > be the same timbre, but weren't:
>> > i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
>> > i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
>> > i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ; blank
>> > i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
>> > i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
>> > <--------------- i3
>> > i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ; text
>> > <-------- also i3
>> > i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
>> > i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
>> >
>> > (?)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Steven Yi  wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I don't remember the GM MIDI instrument numbers but it played 3
>> >> different timbres to my ear.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:24 PM, Forrest Curo 
>> >> wrote:
>> >> > Was it using the sound the guy wanted for each csound instrument? (&
>> >> > hadn't
>> >> > he just as well stop resetting the sounds every time he calls an
>> >> > instrument?)
>> >> >
>> >> > On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 6:21 PM, Steven Yi 
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I just ran the CSD here on Windows 10 and it produced a sound every
>> >> >> 0.75 seconds using the built-in Microsoft MIDI synth.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Dan Farr-Smith
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> wrote:
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > This is my first post to the forum, I'm very new to Csound. I'm
>> >> >> > doing
>> >> >> > a
>> >> >> > University project to sonify data in an Excel table so that
>> >> >> > visually
>> >> >> > impaired people can listen to the sound of the values in the
>> >> >> > table.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I would like to use 3 different instruments to represent:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 1, numerical values
>> >> >> > 2, blank values
>> >> >> > 3, string values
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > For the numerical values I'm interpolating the frequency between
>> >> >> > 41
>> >> >> > and
>> >> >> > 100Hz based on the minimum and maximum values in the range.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I'm having difficulty in getting the different instruments to play
>> >> >> > at
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > correct time. I thought instrument 2 would play when i2 is stated
>> >> >> > in
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > CsScore and instrument 3 would play for i3. Unfortunately, this is
>> >> >> > not
>> >> >> > what's happening. The instruments are not playing when I thought
>> >> >> > they
>> >> >> > would.
>> >> >> > I believe it's something to do with the setting up of the
>> >> >> > instruments,
>> >> >> > as I
>> >> >> > simply expanded my code from one that worked for a single
>> >> >> > instrument.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > By the way, I'm use a shell command to execute the csound.exe and
>> >> >> > .csd.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > If someone could help me out, it'd be much appreciated.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Thanks,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Dan
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Code:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > -Q0 -o dac --midioutfile=C:\Sonification\midiout.mid dm6
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > sr=44100
>> >> >> > kr=4410
>> >> >> > ksmps = 10
>> >> >> > nchnls = 1
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > instr 1
>> >> >> > ichn    =       1 ; channel
>> >> >> > midiout 192, 1, 1, 1
>> >> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> >> > endin
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > instr 2
>> >> >> > ichn    =       2 ; channel
>> >> >> > midiout 192, 2, 125, 1
>> >> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> >> > endin
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > instr 3
>> >> >> > ichn    =       3 ; channel
>> >> >> > midiout 192, 3, 110, 1
>> >> >> > outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8
>> >> >> > noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
>> >> >> > endin
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > ;P1  P2 P3      P4              P5      P6      P7      ; Original
>> >> >> > Value
>> >> >> > i1    0 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
>> >> >> > i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
>> >> >> > i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ;
>> >> >> > blank
>> >> >> > i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
>> >> >> > i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
>> >> >> > i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ;
>> >> >> > text
>> >> >> > i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ;
>> >> >> > 10
>> >> >> > i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ;
>> >> >> > 90
>> >> >> > e
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> > 
>> >> >> >
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Hi Steven & Forrest,

Thanks for all your help, it's been very informative. I've implemented the
workaround that Steven suggested and the instruments play at the expected
time.

Thanks again.

For reference, my updated code is below:



-Q0 -o dac --midioutfile=C:\Sonification\midiout.mid dm6



sr=44100       ; audio sampling rate, behaves as a tempo control for MIDI
output
kr=4410       ; signal control rate (equals sr for MIDI output best results)
ksmps = 10      ; samples per control period
nchnls = 1       ; number of audio channels. 1 = mono / 2 = stereo

instr 4
midiout 192, 1, 1, 1
midiout 192, 2, 119, 1
midiout 192, 3, 124, 1
endin

instr 1
ichn    =       1 ; channel
outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8 
noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
endin

instr 2
ichn    =       2 ; channel
outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8 
noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
endin

instr 3
ichn    =       3 ; channel
outic ichn,10,p7, 0 , 8 
noteondur2 ichn, p4, p5, p3
endin




;P1  	P2		P3  	P4  	P5		P6			P7
;INS	STRT 	DUR		AMP		FREQ    WAVESHAPE   ID?	Actual Value
i4 0 0.01
i1    0.02 0.5     93.36   127     1       1       ; 81
i1    0.75      0.5     97.05   127     1       2       ; 86
i2    1.5       0.5     127             127     1       3       ; blank
i1    2.25      0.5     66.81   127     1       4       ; 45
i3    3 0.5     70              127     1       5       ; text
i3    3.75      0.5     70              127     1       6       ; text
i1    4.5       0.5     41              127     1       7       ; 10
i1    5.25      0.5     100             127     1       8       ; 90
e






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