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by David Worrall :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Jake,

On 09/07/2009, at 2:02 AM, Jacob Joaquin wrote:

>
> What if?
>
> Csound only comes in one variety, Csound Core. Csound Core is  
> designed with
>
...
> Plugins include: Python, Java,
... but here you seem not to have understood the difference between  
_embedding_ (the python interpreter for eg,) in csound, in which case  
it does act like a plugin,
and _extending_  (python, java, c etc) with csound. In which cases  
csound acts like a plugin to csound.
This type of use of access to csound (through an Application Program  
Interface) eanbles other tools do not-sound-specific things (such as  
score-genertion, for eg)  better than csound probably ever could.

D.

> VST, CsoundAC, Audio Units, TclCsound, FLTK
> Widgets, Virtual MIDI Keyboard, LADSPA, Plugin Manager (allows users  
> to turn
> on/off installed plugins), etc.  Third party software also uses this  
> same
> interface layer to use Csound as an audio engine.
>
> To me, this is nearly the ideal situation.  Is this possible.  
> Absolutely!
> Plausible, maybe?
>
> Best,
> Jake
>
> --

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