Re: perl / python, was apspec activity: music for single stack

I took a look at pmask, and it ( along with cmask ) does seem worth
exploring. However, it is ( fortunately ) quite a different beast than what
I have been working on. I do think there may be good potential in being able
to move data back and forth between the two however. It seems to me that
pmask and cmask are better for essentially "hard algorythmic" writing,
whereas what I am doing is somewhere between that and score writing. My goal
is ultimately to have a very powerful yet dense total environment for making
pattern based music in csound. So I intend people to work directly on the
event lists, using functions to alter them when needed, but the event list
being "home base" so to speak. This meant to be an improvement on inspecting
csound score language directly, and to be an environment that would replace
say Sonar/Cubase/Logic as one's composing pad. Essentially I want something
like an extremely souped up version of Sonar/Cakewalks event editor, but
aimed at making it easy to do complicated programming, if a little
unattractive for simple programming. One will type into the editor much like
a spread sheet, but also be able to run functions that offset, scale, copy,
set, repeat, etc, with far more options than conventional multi-trackers
allow. All meant to be quick to use as well. I aim to have one able to
listen, think, and program, with less time spent on the program part in
order to achieve the desired result. Anyway I will post preliminaries soon!

Iain




----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Redfern" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, April 23, 2004 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CsndTek] perl / python, was apspec activity: music for single
stack


> If you like python, its worth looking at pmask, which does everything that
> cmask used to, but with python. Its more than a step sequencer, you can
> use a bunch of different algorithms to generate scores, but you can also
> just use it for step sequencing. I've just gotten into it, and am still
> learning how to use it, but its very promising, so when I get some
> tune-age going, I'll post a link to the list.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, iain duncan wrote:
>
> > > I used perl to automate the process of writing the csound score file.
> > > Then I used csound in deferred time to render the sound file.
> >
> > Care to share more details? I have been working on the same thing with
> > Python, so I'm quite interested.
> >
> > For others interested, I will soon be putting out my very alpha first
set of
> > tools for text based step sequencing using a modified gvim and python
> > scripts. Basically it's like a tracker/event list approach with 1 line
per
> > sixteenth note ( though that can change ) and one instrument per
sequence
> > file. This then gets processed into a big score. I'm still hashing out
some
> > details though, but it works. Generated a functional score from
multi-track
> > step lists yesterday.
> >
> > I've come to the realize that the score language is beautiful in it's
> > elegant simplicity but not so fun to edit directly. On the other hand,
it's
> > a dead easy to format to automate.
> >
> > Iain
> >
> > >
> > > Have a nice weekend!
> > > - --
> > > gerald wenzel
> > > music: http://apspec.com
> > > linux & code: http://geraldwenzel.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
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