I think the most elegant way to do this should be with a trigger opcode, similar to
one already implemented by G. Maldonado. Thus a single instrument could trigger any
drum sound you wanted, each one stored in a separate instrument but not called
directly in the score, but specified as a parameter filed or even as a MIDI note as
you suggest.
The trigger opcode should work for any instrument, of course, so it should allow
any number of "p-fields" to be sent to the triggered instr., apart from the
duration.
Any volunteer? ;-)

Josep M Comajuncosas


jasonf@thei.net wrote:

> Ok, now for the two most stupid questions of all.
> In all of the .orc files I've seen so far, each different sound is it's own
> instrument. That being the case, is there anyway to create an entire drumset as
> one instrument or would it require a different instrument for each sound? If
> you do have to set each one up as its own instrument, can you set up your .sco
> file so that all of the drum instruments can be controlled via midi over just
> channel 10 and the .sco file will convert each instrument on/off request to the
> proper .orc instrument?