Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Mix
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp_AT_ulster.net)
Date: pe elo 20 1999 - 00:40:06 EDT
Nicola Bernardini wrote:
> and then we *should* also have unlimited resource stuff like csound
> and Mix ...(snip)
Has it occurred to anyone but me that, at the moment, the functionality
of mix is a subset of the functionality of csound? And that, since Mix
stores your work as a simple (even human-readable) text file, a
mix-to-csound translation utility is theoretically possible?
To create such a utility, one would have to:
1) Write a Csound orchestra that can do everything Mix can do.
2) Write a script (Perl? Python? Whatever?) that translates mixfiles
into a score that can be used with this special Csound orc.
I could imagine a lot of uses for such things: Throw together some ideas
in Mix, then export the mixfile to a csound score which can then be
extended with ten thousand effects...
I've been thinking for a while that Csound can, in principle, do a lot
of the things a full digital studio can do; it just lacks nice
interfaces for most tasks. Cecilia and Quasimodo demonstrate the
potential here. One could conceivable create a Csound-based soundfile
editor that does totally non-destructive "editing" by using diskin with
different skip times. Rendering a waveform display of your edits would
be an interesting problem.
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