Re: :Midi2cs --> Text Editor --> Maple --> Scala --> Timidity

Hi Gene

Once you've got an orc and sco file, you just need to open them in Winsound
and render them there. It's really easy and you don't need to know anything
about CSound to do it - I've done it, and I haven't learnt CSound yet.

You just run Winsound, load both the files, specify the output
file and device to use, and click a render button and that's it. There's
nothing to it.

Also winsound is really easy to install, has a regular type
installer and you just run that and it is installed, complete with CSound too.

If you install Cecilia, it automatically installs winsound too as part of
the installation.

Then I suppose you will be wanting to edit the .orc file, but that will
let you at least hear it which is a start.

When I do the programming for it I'll probably just do it manual in hand,
after a bit of initial learning about how CSound works, don't expect
I'll learn all those op codes and things :-).

Nice thing is once you've programmed something, the program then itself
"knows" how to do it long after you've forgotten yourself.

Well if it is open source, then anyone can add conversions into other formats
such as the SCALA .seq file. There I expect the thing is all the notations that
SCALA supports, all would need to be added in for the conversions
if you want to render it in any of the notations. Plus other
statements there too.

But maybe I can make one way of doing that, particular choice of notation
system and things, by way of being an example that could be added to later
with other notation systems, to get it started...

Also think about having those notation systems in the original format
too. The SCALA .seq format is particularly designed to help with
making midi files. Maybe one can borrow some elements of it
for the idea of a kind of general microtonal sequencer interchange
format.

Thanks,

Robert

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:
> Hi Gene
>
> Once you've got an orc and sco file, you just need to open them in Winsound
> and render them there. It's really easy and you don't need to know anything
> about CSound to do it - I've done it, and I haven't learnt CSound yet.

I think this is what I tried, but I'll look at it again.

The SCALA .seq format is particularly designed to help with
> making midi files. Maybe one can borrow some elements of it
> for the idea of a kind of general microtonal sequencer interchange
> format.

It's very straightforward, which is good for such things.

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Robert Walker" <robertwalker@n...> wrote:

> You just run Winsound, load both the files, specify the output
> file and device to use, and click a render button and that's it. There's
> nothing to it.

I just get the same junk as before--a bunch of garbage about illegal op codes, and a wav file with no waves. Doesn't it need samples or a sound card or something?