David Schuyeteneer wrote:
> 
> (...) how can I let the vibrato amplitude fading out over time ??

wrap it in an envelope that "lives" for p3, for example

> (...) Csound looks like a senseless list of numbers and cryptic
> abbreviations viewed through a programmers' eyes...

Well, you won't get around lists of numbers when you're writing elec-
tronic music in such a low-level way as this one. You could use another
interface to the scores, just like MIDI-capable software-sequencers,
since CSound instruments can be written to understand MIDI. You would
have to use some kind of MIDI loopback device to "plug" Csound into
the sofware, or if you have 2 MIDI controllers, you could slave one to
the other and let Csound "listen" to the slave. Hopefully, there may be
even simpler methods... Has any Csounder ever used such an approach-
and if yes, how do you do it ??

kd

I have used the HUBIE MIDI loopback utility to run one application
generating MIDI msgs, and directed them to a simultaneously running
CSound process. I did this under Win95 and proved (yet again) what a
sorry OS it is. It "worked", but the sound was breaking up horribly
and no tweaking of buffer sizes was going to fix the fundamental
scheduling problem.

Of course, the ADI extended csound runs great driven by a MIDI
generaating application. The other alternative to compensate for the
lack of Win95 support for real multiple processes, is to run your MIDI
app on one computer, and send MIDI msgs over a cable to another! It
does work - don't throw out your old 486's!


 > Well, you won't get around lists of numbers when you're writing elec-
 > tronic music in such a low-level way as this one. You could use another
 > interface to the scores, just like MIDI-capable software-sequencers,
 > since CSound instruments can be written to understand MIDI. You would
 > have to use some kind of MIDI loopback device to "plug" Csound into
 > the sofware, or if you have 2 MIDI controllers, you could slave one to
 > the other and let Csound "listen" to the slave. Hopefully, there may be
 > even simpler methods... Has any Csounder ever used such an approach-
 > and if yes, how do you do it ??


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