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Re: for the future: more than four channels?

Date1998-12-24 17:28
FromGabriel Maldonado
SubjectRe: for the future: more than four channels?
pete moss wrote:
> 
> maybe i dont understand, but why use the 'ifilename' variable?  why not use the output
> filename specified in the command line?  why give this fout opcode the power to change the
> output filename?

Because in this way you can output more than a multichannel file a time, with a single
unmodified csound orc/sco pair. For example, the Korg 1212 card is able to sync for stereo
files at the same time, allowing octophony without using specialized wave players.

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Gabriel Maldonado