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Hello. I'm new to the CSound list, so I apologize if this has been covered
already.

I'm using the MIDI converters (cpsmidi, etc.) with a multi-channel MIDI
file. My orchestra is essneitally a sampler; each instrument gets the
notes from the corresponding MIDI channel, selects a sound file from a
ftable, and plays the sound.

Since all the instruments are the same, it's cumbersome to make several
instruments that are virtually identical. I'd like to do this:
    inst = 1,2,3,4,5
; sample playback stuff here
    endin

However, to select the appropriate ftable, I need to know which notes are
being played with which channel. Is there any way that an instrument, such
as the one above, can find out which instrument number is being used?

Jacob Weber
Jacob.Weber@oberlin.edu
http://www.oberlin.edu/~jweber/


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