| While I'll diligently look through the tutorials to figure out .orc and .sco
synax....
A few stupid questions:
First of all, I'm looking into getting a new computer and upgrading another.
The new computer is going to be a mobile PII 300 notebook and I'm upgrading my
old one to a dual 450 Xeon system (if I ever get paid). What kind of realtime
performance can I expect from these two systems? I was told that there's a
benchmark page somewhere, but I've never been able to find it.
Also, what quad soundcards will actually work in quad under Csound? I found
out recently that the SB PCI128 isn't really quad, and the SB Live isn't
supported under Linux yet. Opensound is working on drivers for the RME and
Sonorus 8 in/out professional sound cards. Would those work? With 8 outputs, I
guess I could have dual quad :-)
BTW, someone mentioned (I believe it was Philip) that there's a free soundcard
driver project. What's the URL again?
Ok, now for the two most stupid questions of all.
In all of the .orc files I've seen so far, each different sound is it's own
instrument. That being the case, is there anyway to create an entire drumset as
one instrument or would it require a different instrument for each sound? If
you do have to set each one up as its own instrument, can you set up your .sco
file so that all of the drum instruments can be controlled via midi over just
channel 10 and the .sco file will convert each instrument on/off request to the
proper .orc instrument?
Finally, if I'm using a midi controller (like a keyboard) to controll Csound,
is there anyway I can change sounds in the middle of a performance without
having to change channels? In other words, can I set up Csound so that when I
send a patch change from my keyboard, it'll change sounds?
I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I'm just curious what all Csound
can do. I've been very impressed with it so far.
Thanks,
Jason
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Date: 02-Oct-98
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