Hi,
We had a great time at AES, but then how couldn't we, it was in
Amsterdam!  The response to our joystick demo and Cecilia was very good.
I was happy to see a couple Csounders.  Thanks for stopping by!

As usual, we got some flack for only supporting Windows 95 (I don't like
it any more than most of you).  We would encourage anyone interested in
supporting Extended Csound on other platforms.  Although right now, we
can't pay anyone to do any work, I can promise you a free card and as
much support as we can give.  Should a company come to us that is
interested in selling cards for another platform, they would probably be
interested in licensing the work that has been done so far instead of
starting from scratch.  Please contact me if anyone has any interest in
this.

Also, I hope to get more and more people cards as we are financially
able to do so.  If you especially anxious, send me a convincing note
(please, no threats).  It is truly in our best interest to get people
all around the world using the system.

I hope you're all having great summers!
Scotty Vercoe
Extended Csound Applications Consultant
Analog Devices Software & Systems Technology Division
Tel: (781) 461-3569       FAX: (781) 461-4291
Support: Csound.support@analog.com
Website: http://www.analog.com/

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Vercoe, Scotty wrote:

[snip]
> As usual, we got some flack for only supporting Windows 95 (I don't like
> it any more than most of you).  We would encourage anyone interested in
> supporting Extended Csound on other platforms.  Although right now, we
> can't pay anyone to do any work, I can promise you a free card and as
> much support as we can give.  Should a company come to us that is
> interested in selling cards for another platform, they would probably be
> interested in licensing the work that has been done so far instead of
> starting from scratch.  Please contact me if anyone has any interest in
> this.

Well, these are good news. I speak for myself but I think I can correctly
assert that at list me, Dave Phillips and Robin Whittle and the entire
Linux Audio Development list would be happy
to see Extended Csound cards running on linux boxes, and I am ready to
jump in writing drivers and what not to make this happen. Do you think
that access to the information needed could be made available to the
linux community which is, as you certainly know, driven by public domain
interests rather than commercial ventures?

Nicola
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Nicola Bernardini
E-mail: nicb@axnet.it
 
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
with pictures.

have just spent half a day searching csound archives for Quad and related
issues. much on i/o cards, soundfile format and even possibilities for
opcodes but not a single post on working methods to create a quad image and
move sounds throughout the soundfield!

would appreciate if anyone out there working in quad will share the wisdom
of their mixing methods. (or even math involved in calculating relative
levels of a sound in 4 speakers necessary to place sound at a specific
point in the listening room.)

as an avowed program challenged csound heretic, i do all my mixing in
MOTU's Digital Performer. currently planning to output quad by simply
playing back five tracks (see my post on Discrete 5.1), which comprise my
mix, directly in Digital Performer through a MOTU 2408 into 5 mono amps,
each feeding a separate speaker. my music consists of 100's of individual
mono soundfiles sitting in, usually, about 8 tracks. nightmare waiting to
happen. hmm. maybe i should mix this down in csound. especially if i can
somehow harnass cecilia to plot the movement of sounds.

as a single sound travels through the quad field, the amplitude of that
particular sound in each of the speakers must change and therefore the
levels of it in each track. there has been some mention of the joys of
joysticking as well as other controllers. anyone using joysticks to mix?

-perhaps i could place each of my sounds in set containing 5 separate
tracks and calculate start and end points for volume (expressed as percent)
for each of the sounds and simply draw a straight (volume) line between
those points in DP; then combine all my various sets of 5 tracks into one
set. expect that the mix will then have to be touched up in the venue in
which it will be ultimately exhibited. should have it all wrapped up before
the next ice age. price of control. nevertheless...

quad mixing methods anyone?

tolve


Wed, 10 Jun 1998 Scotty Vercoe wrote:
>Hi,
>We had a great time at AES, but then how couldn't we, it was in
>Amsterdam!  The response to our joystick demo and Cecilia was very good.
>I was happy to see a couple Csounders.  Thanks for stopping by!
>
>As usual, we got some flack for only supporting Windows 95 (I don't like
>it any more than most of you).  We would encourage anyone interested in
>supporting Extended Csound on other platforms.  Although right now, we
>can't pay anyone to do any work, I can promise you a free card and as
>much support as we can give.  Should a company come to us that is
>interested in selling cards for another platform, they would probably be
>interested in licensing the work that has been done so far instead of
>starting from scratch.  Please contact me if anyone has any interest in
>this.
>
>Also, I hope to get more and more people cards as we are financially
>able to do so.  If you especially anxious, send me a convincing note
>(please, no threats).  It is truly in our best interest to get people
>all around the world using the system.
>
>I hope you're all having great summers!
>Scotty Vercoe
>Extended Csound Applications Consultant
>Analog Devices Software & Systems Technology Division
>Tel: (781) 461-3569       FAX: (781) 461-4291
>Support: Csound.support@analog.com
>Website: http://www.analog.com/

Might not be what you're looking for, but you might not be aware of
the locsig and space "family" of unit generators that I added to csound
recently. They are pretty simple to use, and perhaps the processing is
too simple for what you want to do. But they can be expanded if the desire
is there.

Also take a look at the beta release of SoundSpace from my center (CARTAH)
	http://www.washington.edu/cartah/soundspace/index.html

which you can use to create different sound movement tracks for use with
space, spdist, spsend.

cheers,

Richard Karpen