>I've been listening with interest to the threads regarding real-time 
>control and the problem of intuition while working with CSound and 
>we seem to be thinking along the same lines.      I would like to see 
>CSound become far more intuitive,   hence Visual Orchestra,   but I 
>have experimented over the last few days with MIDI control of 
>parameters using CSound command MIDICTRL.   It seems to me that a 
>virtual MIDI synth interface is what is needed,     I've not seen 
>Cakewalks studioware feature but I suppose it to be similar to 
>Cubase's realtime MIDI controllers,   OK but not ideally suited to 
>CSound control.
>
>	What about a MIDI controller designer (This could 
>be incorporated into VisOrc or be run seperately) where the user can 
>design and save sets of buttons and sliders with assignable MIDI 
>functions?      I'd make a start but CSound crashes with even the 
>simplest MIDI control messages.
I think you have almost precisely described Cakewalk studioware features 
mensioned above. Cubase has probably even more powerful mixermap feature - 
not just realtime midi controller, but customizable set of control elements 
to send continous midi messages.

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Alexey Tikhonov