On 8/1/07, Chuckk Hubbard <badmuthahubbard@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> Hi MiS. You were recently mentioned to me on the Pd list as a fellow
> Pd/Csound user... been having some issues, might contact you off-list...
Sure, I also hang out sometimes on #dataflow channel on
irc.freenode.org (as MiS). Feel free to write to me. I also fool
around with untempered tunings :) I haven't used csound in a while
(years!) but I have been getting back to it recently.
> I don't know if Csound yet has the ability to act as a DSSI instrument, only
> a host, I thought. It will act as a LADSPA plugin, for Audacity and Muse
> that I know of (somehow doesn't seem to work with Rosegarden or Ardour for
> me).
in the scons options buildDSSI says "build DSSI/LADSPA host opcodes".
I have not used CSound as a LADSPA/DSSI plugin my understanding is
that it can be both. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
> But, having played with Csound's granular a good deal, I *highly* recommend
> it for anyone interested in that. Using a user-defined waveform is
> standard, you can control every aspect, switch between waveforms, do other
> effects on the result, and honestly I think it's capable of things no other
> program is with granular.
I am planning to do a csound rewrite of my (not so) granular pd
performance patch. It is not quite granular because I rarely use
grains smaller than 500ms but otherwise it is loosely based on some
ideas behind the pulsar synthesis. But I use only "granular sampling"
technique where I use only live-sampled waveforms (which,
nevertheless, is stored in arrays (aka buffers)).
> Definitely miles ahead of Reason's Maelstrom.
Whatever that is... :)
> Like I said, I don't believe it can be a DSSI instrument yet, but it can be
> controlled by MIDI through aconnect or qjackctl.
and OSC, too.
> I've used both the "fog" and "fof2" commands for great granular effects. I
> believe "fog" was the one I found most useful.
years ago, I had a simple granulator of soundfiles built with the
oscil opcode. I had to generate thousands, and even hundreds of
thousands, of lines of score, mind you, but it allowed for exactly the
control over the playback of grains I wanted (every grain was
controlled by a score statement). No, I did not write the score by
hand. Today, with kind of CPU power we have, it should be possible to
obtain interesting results in real-time and generating the score
statements with pd (using [csoundapi~], for instance) although I doubt
that pd would be able to provide the kind of resolution one would want
for really cool grain clouds (several thousands of events per second).
./MiS
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