To flog a horse that I hope is note yet dead:

This is why I propose plugin opcodes and GENs. People could write these "all
in one" opcodes in C or C++ or FORTRAN or whatever, and then Csound would
load them at runtime and orc files would be able to use them. A preliminary
version of this feature is implemented in my AXCsound/JCsound and in Gabriel
Maldonado's DirectCsound.

I would very much like to see this feature incorporated in "canonical"
Csound. I have, unfortunately, only implemented it for Windows. If anyone in
the New York area would like to work with me to get it working for Unixes
and the Macintosh, let me know and we can get together and work it out. I
know how to do it on Unix myself.

-----Original Message-----
From: Josep M Comajuncosas 
To: "@jps.net"@exeter.ac.uk <"@jps.net"@exeter.ac.uk>
Cc: Csound 
Date: Friday, February 19, 1999 7:06 AM
Subject: Re: New Opcodes


nunativs wrote:

> > or an opcode to work with soundfont
> > bancks (prepare a multilayered multisample is too tedious now...)

> Joseph you're reading my mind on this one. Multilayered sampling is one of
> Csound's weak points.

Yes ... I don´t like sampling but for percussion instruments it is good
enough, and
still necessary for timbres like an acoustic piano. I know there are really
good
soundfonts, the only problem is that such opcode should retain some
multiplattforn
support and I don´t know if these multisample files are standarised or maybe
too
MsWin-oriented. But a built-in opcode is absolutely necessary: I tried to
build one
with the loscil opcodes and some hundreds of conditionals and table accesses
to
select the appropiate sample and it turned out to be a nightmare!

> Pertaining to the discussion of a virtual DX7, I would encourage
> development of all 32 algorithims in a single opcode.
> Also couldn't all the 4-op single purpose opcodes be combined into a
> general more robust 4-op Fm synth based on the 81Z?

Coding entire old analog synths an early digital FM-based ones into the
sources of
Csound is for me a great idea. And a hard work of course! You can always
experiment
with new analog/FM synthesis techniques, but all those timbres have been
developed
years ago and such opcodes would save you from reinventing the wheels.