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i shouldnt mention this, because it is a LONG way off still - but a while
back
i started a csound graphic score/digtal mixer app for mac (and now would
probably be for beOS too) - i got to the point where you could drag i
cards around, launch "perf", and then mix resultant sound files.
its been on the "back-burner" for a while as it needs the obligatory
"strip-down and resturctured" stage now.
also, my ideas have been moving more and more toward a new paradigm for a
mixer app and less and less interested in supporting csound.
is "rt" open source? i would think it would be a breeze to hack in a
csound score (instead of a sound file).
-matt
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, James Andrews wrote:
>
> hello all
>
> i was following the list for a while but i lost email functionality for a
> while recently so i don't know if this topic has come up at all...
>
> does anyone know of or is anyone currently developing a sequencer for csound
> or dcsound? I am astounded at the potential and power of csound, but i am
> almost completely stifled by the text based score format required to create
> compositions. I understand that csound supports MIDI and that I could use a
> MIDI sequencer to compose, but as i see it, this is not a solution, because
> when using MIDI much of the functionality of the instrument is lost. you
> are left with pitch, velocity, and a few limited MIDI capabilities like
> pitch bend, modulation, aftertouch, etc. Unfortunately these functions are
> limited and are difficult to implement in a controlled and flexible way with
> a MIDI sequencer.
>
> as a result, i propose a sequencer, similar to your average or below-average
> MIDI sequencer, except instead of keeping track of the song by MIDI data, it
> would drop MIDI entirely and focus on the design and flexilbity of csound.
> As an example of a key feature, one would be able to directly specificy
> things like instrument arguments for each note, while maintaining the
> visual, user-oriented environment of MIDI sequencers like cakewalk or
> digital orchestrator. The ability to select a section of the sequence and
> render it alone, even with the ability to mute out or single out specific
> instruments or "tracks", would also be crucial, and is an unquestioned
> feature of any MIDI sequencer, yet is difficult to implement in csound
> without much modificaiton of text files, etc. Imagine having all the
> standard tools of a MIDI-style sequencer *and* the standard flexibility of
> csound all at your disposal. Change general volumes easily, transpose a few
> bars here or there up or down, move this part of the song over there, copy
> and paste this onto that, change a melody's instrument instantantly, adjust
> the reverb for this track, visually adjust the rhythm and pitch of your
> melodies, etc etc etc etc.
>
> I am talking about software that molds the power of csound in a way that is
> more condusive and effective for the musical mind. Csound is an extremely
> powerful tool for both the creative and rational mind, but it leaves the
> musician's mind in the waiting room while the rational mind changes this,
> tweaks that, etc., leaving so little room for the process of creative
> expression. Many times i have devoted my csound time to thinking in and
> around csound, and not in and around my music. If both the rational and
> musical minds can be accomodated comfortably, without either one having to
> make a big sacrfice, then csound as a medium would become immeasuarbly more
> powerful.
>
> I would take the time myself to code such a sequencer, simply because i can
> forsee the benefits of it, unfortunately i am only familiar with DOS Turbo
> Pascal as a programming language, and coding a DOS-based application of this
> type would, i am sure, waste a lot of my time on things that windows and
> object oriented programming makes into a breeze.
>
> whew. any thoughts?
>
> josh whiting
> joshwhiting@hotmail.com
>
>
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