Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Jan 19, 2008 4:33 PM, victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I can't speak for TamTam because I am not involved in their >> design details, but I can say this, Csound's standard score >> preceeds MIDI by at least a decade (or two if you consider where >> it came from). It is much more flexible to convey musical data >> than MIDI. There are MIDI to csound score converters, but >> that is beside the point, because Csound can play MIDI files >> directly, receive realtime MIDI data and even output it. >> There is no problem whatsoever, with the proper instruments, >> Csound will be a MIDI synthesizer like any other. The main >> thing is, that it is not limited to it (thank goodness...). > > How about showing some support for standards by > dropping the non-standard stuff? You can #ifdef it. > Maybe you can even save a few bytes. > > If you really must, you can embed the non-standard > stuff into a MIDI file. It's better to avoid non-standard > stuff entirely of course, and any extended MIDI file > had better play decently on a standard MIDI player. > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
One of the main reasons I got an XO was because it has CSound. It's a ghastly API, but it's been around for years and there are thousands of working instruments! There's a huge book on it, and I doubt very seriously if anyone will ever come up with a digital sound analysis and synthesis tool set as comprehensive without investing a lot of effort re-inventing a bunch of wheels, levers, inclined planes and such. By the way -- I've been meaning to check to see if this is in Trac, but the csound-manual and csound-tutorial RPMs in the repository appear to be empty. I can install them, but there isn't anything on the machine after I do. I'm also attempting to get some of the Planet CCRMA software loaded on the system. At this point, all I really want is Common Music -- I don't need another synthesizer since I have CSound, and I don't need a music notation program. If anyone else has already done this, I'd love to hear about it. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
