mike wrote:
> 
> versions of the kyma system. Something that concerns me is the lack of
> anything other than midi to drive these new synths. realtime csound
> stylee without floating point pfields is like fine paint with a trowel
> on the end of a stick.

	I am planning to add Open Sound Control (OSC) support to GrainWave.  It is a
packet-based IP protocol for sound control data.  It easily support floats,
and just about any other data structure.  I would be happy to provide csound
opcodes for OSC once I have the stuff worked out (within a couple of months, I
would guess).  I could also provide the PPC-specific network socket code.  If
someone else can write the specific code for the other platforms, then we
could step csound into a more useful real-time control realm.  I know that
CNMAT (who developed OSC) has code for UNIX machines (if I can get at it, I
don't know).
	Basically, the idea is that you could address csound directly via Internet
Protocol, which is supported by all machines, and for which most people have
hardware and software.  Then you don't have the same specialized hardware
dependence that MIDI has.  Of course, no one makes an OSC keyboard yet, so
this would (at least at first) be purely for software-csound communication.
-- 
Mike Berry
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