[CM] Supercollider and CM

[todd ingalls]

> think it makes sense to have the scores write out text files (or at 
> least have the option of doing this) in a similar way that the CM - 
> CSound interface works.  It is good to be able to edit output, and 
> this can't be easily done with the osc binary files.  Is this already 
> possible?  
>
> Second, there is already a SC class that will convert a text score to 
> osc, or play it, or render it in NRT.  Score.sc is the class, and 
> there are examples in the Score-help file. 

in this method does one have to then evaluate the Score class from 
within SC to render the score file? i was trying to avoid that as i 
wanted this automated and could't seem to find a way to do it. perhaps 
it would be possible to have some helper functions for import/export 
to/from .osc binary format and ascii?



>
> finally, this was a bit of a fake but it worked nicely.  The functions 
> that Don Craig and I originally wrote to write out score also had the 
> pad argument.  I changed them awhile ago to take a pad argument, OR, 
> to calculate a file duration based on the note objects 'dur' 
> argument.  Of course this meant that all SynthDefs had to have a dur 
> argument for this to work.  This is only needed for non-real-time 
> rendering (in real-time, the last dummy command should be harmless no 
> matter what)... The dummy timestamp was calculated as the greatest 
> starttime + duration of all the notes. I like this quite a bit, and it 
> can take the guess work out of calculating a possibly unknown file 
> duration.

hmm. we would have to think about this as it would require (as you 
point out) some standard slot name for synths and would also not work 
for command events which have no duration.



> Just a couple of suggestions. I'm really glad to see this being 
> brought into CM in a more official way!
>
> I'm also interested in helping out in general.  I'm on digest, but if 
> there are SC questions I can help with, I will.
>
> Josh
>
>
> On May 9, 2005, at 12:00 PM, cmdist-request@ccrma.Stanford.EDU wrote:
>
>> Re: [CM] Supercollider and CM
>
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> Joshua D. Parmenter
> Graduate Student, Music Composition
> http://homepage.mac.com/joshpar/
>
> "...Some people think a composer's supposed to please them, but in a 
> way a composer is a chronicler... He's supposed to report on what he's 
> seen and lived."
>                        -Charles Mingus
>