Hi all,

Didn't think we'd killed this thread already, did y'all?  I may have to
recant my public position.  Although MIDI works fine for keyboards and drum
machines sending note information realtime, it looks like there is going to
be actual hardware and tons of sequencing software based on the DLS
standard in the not too distant future.  A Yamaha representitive I have
been talking to via email pointed out this website, and I found the article
right away:

http://www2.midi.org/mma/dlsvote.htm

It says "The MIDI Manufacturers Association (MMA) today announced the
unanimous vote of its members in favor of the
Downloadable Sounds Level 1 (DLS-1)".  For those developers who wish to
keep Csound up with the latest standards, my hat is off to you!

(By the way, yes you can sequence perfectly fine in a Csound .orc.  It is
just that once you have all your nifty experimental instruments set up, you
still have the task of getting reams of note data into the program, and you
may even want it with the human feel of a live player!)

Jackee Criswell
TheSilverSurfer@themall.net

Check out my new computer music website at:
http://www.themall.net/~slvrsrfr

P.S.: Just got my MIDI Rendering page completed for the time being.  Now I
gotta change to The DLS rendering page?!?!!?