Re: Re: Csound, PureData, and pipes.

> You could uses as  many MIDI messages as you want bits thinking of them 
> as LSB and MSB groups. CsoundAV currently supports 14-bit and 21-bit 
> controllers easily, but there's no reason why you couldn't have a 28 or 
> 35 bit controller. (apart from possible message de-synchronization). I 
> currently connect csound and PD using 14-bit messages and it works very 
> well.

Yeah that is an option I've thought about, and one we have already done 
a bit with PD, but let's say you want to send an instrument event with 
16 pfields at 32 bit precision, that's a whole lot of encoded midi, and 
a whole lot of extra programming to translate what you want into midi. 
Also, my instruments are not midi controlled, so that would mean a wack 
load of extra coding on that end too. Compared to just piping
i1 1 2 3 4 5 etc.
that would be a major hassle. It would also be a lot slower. If the 
piping speed ( or better yet the api speed ) is fast enough that you can 
send multiple score messages in less than one sample period then you get 
truely synced events. With midi there is really no elegant way to get by 
the serial nature of the protocal and slow baud rate.

Iain
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