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Re: Realtime MIDI Csound: New midi OUT opcodes

Date1997-04-07 17:55
FromGabriel Maldonado
SubjectRe: Realtime MIDI Csound: New midi OUT opcodes
Micheal Allen Thompson wrote:

> Well, there was the free CMU toolkit for Macintosh and unix. I think
> people still use it but I dont know the version or whatever. It is
> completely open ended and you could code until you cant code anymore all
> of your home grown midi processes. On the PC the only thing that I know
> of are small algo type programs in shareware form. I would think that
> you would do better to code your own midi app instead of dealing with
> csound and real-time midi control. I dont know.... maybe take the midi
> sources from csound and roll your own app from them.... not my idea of
> fun but..... Common music has all of this already and runs on many
> platforms....


Larry Troxler wrote:
 
> I'm afraid I have to agree with the other opinions - MIDI out on csound
> doesn't make sense! If you want to do algorithmic music generation, there
> are much better tools for the job - KeyKit, Common Music, Max, Moxie, etc.

I will implement it anyway in next version. New UGs will not compromise
normal behaviour of realtime Csound, so, if you aren't interested in
MIDI OUT UGs simply ignore them.

Best.
-- 
Gabriel Maldonado

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