| Greetings to all,
I am really lost as to the point of the GM discussion. If you
want to use GM stuff, do it, if you don't, don't ... Why does
it need to be any more difficult than that. I don't care
that someone wants to add GM capability to CSound as long as
it doesn't effect the "normal" operation of CSound.
None of us have the capability or influence to wipe GM from the planet
anyway so isn't the debate on whether not GM is a valid compositional
platform a mute one?
I have been apart of this list for many years, and we have covered
this topic more times than I can count, and nothing ever happens
anyway. I guess my point is, can we move on to more relevant
topics. Those who despise GM will just have to deal with the
fact that the "commercial" world requires ease of use over
functionality,
otherwise every studio in the world would be using CSound on
a daily basis because there is nothing on the market that even
comes close to the power represented in CSound. The only reason
few, if any production studios don't use CSound in their daily
affairs is because there aren't any turn key CSound products on
the market...at least not yet... Once there is, CSound will be able
to take on whatever role is necessary, be it a simple GM module, or
a high tech modeling synth. It will happen, it is just a question
of when.
I think is very exciting to see CSound become more of a main
stream item as apposed to just remaining a high end, tech head only
synthesis platform that few ever spend the time to learn and even
fewer actually use in their everyday compositional lives...Not all
of us have access to real-time capability CSound boxes anyway so
I would assume that all would welcome a turn-key CSound unit that
would run with a consumer level computer system you bought at Best Buy.
If I am totally wrong about this, please feel free to correct me..
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