[CM] Supercollider and CM

[Joshua Parmenter]

hi everyone,

I've been using SC for quite a bit of time, and there are a couple of  
things that may be good to do. Some of this is a little biased on the  
way I had CM and SC working together, but I think they are worth  
mentioning.

First, I 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.

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.

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 at 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

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