Interesting! What sort of ActiveX control?

I'm not sure how reliably this would work, unless XTCsound is re-entrant, which
I get the impresssion it isn't, yet. Or are you assuming it will only be used
for off-line work? If it is accepting real-time streamed audio a la DirectSound,
as one would expect from an audio ActiveX control, there must be no question of
its 'score' ever finishing. Is this mainly to be able to access Csound from
V.Basic, etc?

I think it would need to accept all likely audio formats, ie 8-bit, 16bit and
32bit floats, and be able to render the audio directly, using the card
(especially valuable for multi-channel formats), or pass it on (eg to
ActiveMovie controls). It will also need to offer a bypass facility.

A scriptable Csound ActiveX control could offer a full Csound programming
interface to V Basic (and Java, presumably)  - so it would accept orchestras and
scores created therein, insertable score statements, and so on...



Richard Dobson

Vercoe, Scotty wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> As we plan on giving XTCsound ActiveX controls, I thought I'd see what
> would be the most desirable features.
> 
> It could be a very simple window:
> -select from a list of orchestras
> -select comtrol rate
> -select buffer size
> -adjust from one to 10 (?) parameters
> -use preview/do to hear/perform the operation
> 
> The control would have to automatically change the orchestra's sr/nchnls
> and score length depending on the audio file.
> 
> Anyone have any additions or comments?
> Scotty Vercoe
> XTCsound Applications Consultant
> Analog Devices Software & Systems Technology Division
> Tel: (781) 461-3569       FAX: (781) 461-4291
> Support: Csound.support@analog.com