>What do you mean by "external synth expander" ?
>

In fact, I would like to use csound as another synth in my setup.
But i'm afraid by parameters like latency, number of instruments running at
the same time, audio quality...

>Which OS you running?  ...  also

linux, kenel 2.2.x

At the moment I have a p200mmx, and I have printed the manual last night,
and looked at the opcodes,
it seems that CSound is fabulous!

But before buying a bigger PC (celeron 400 for example) I'm looking for some
feedback about
realtime CSound in a midi environnement...

Fred

You'll get a lot more feedback with this added info.

Might I suggest Dave Phillips Csound on Linux pages to start...

http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linux_csound.html

This should put some more light on things while the rest of the crew picks
up the leads here.


rw out....  ;-)


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk
[mailto:owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk]On Behalf Of frederic
Aidouni
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 2:06 AM
To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk
Subject: Re: New to CSound


>What do you mean by "external synth expander" ?
>

In fact, I would like to use csound as another synth in my setup.
But i'm afraid by parameters like latency, number of instruments running at
the same time, audio quality...

>Which OS you running?  ...  also

linux, kenel 2.2.x

At the moment I have a p200mmx, and I have printed the manual last night,
and looked at the opcodes,
it seems that CSound is fabulous!

But before buying a bigger PC (celeron 400 for example) I'm looking for some
feedback about
realtime CSound in a midi environnement...

Fred

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, frederic Aidouni wrote:
> 
> At the moment I have a p200mmx, and I have printed the manual last night,
> and looked at the opcodes,
> it seems that CSound is fabulous!

Well, just be warned that a large number of those opcodes don't work
correctly in every circumstance! Csound is still fantastic for its dollar
price, but be ready for some debugging or finding work arounds.

> 
> But before buying a bigger PC (celeron 400 for example) I'm looking for some
> feedback about
> realtime CSound in a midi environnement...

Well, I'm still getting my framework all set up, so for now all I can tell
you is that a simple Wgpluck instrument plays through KeyKit to Csound
without obvious latency. But it will be a while before I get to the point
of tweaking latencies.  The biggest problem my machine has with reeal-time
at the moment is that I have IDE disk drives.
Remember, you have the option of running Csound at POSIX priority level.

Also, I seem to recall that someone is working on an audio driver for
RTlinux, although I can't remember where I heard that.
Now *that* would be nice!

Larry