<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>If I name my fifo 'fefi.sco' I ought to be able to write to it from Grace ... but so far I'm not succeeding.<br><br></div>I'm assuming (!) Grace would open this in 'append' mode (?)<br><br></div>and have some provision for closing the file. Exiting the program? Stopping evaluation?<br><br></div>So far, no luck! ?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Forrest Curo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:treegestalt@gmail.com" target="_blank">treegestalt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>What I have in mind would take notes generated-by or received (via midi) by cm, send them in real-time <br><br></div>to a running instance of csound (which would handle the audio rendering)<br><br></div>while cm records notes & timing, fnurgles these in interesting ways, and plays back the resulting notes through csound. <br><br>(I've noticed that specialized music programs & languages
tend to hoard the system's audio resources, which complicates things
when one tries to run two musical applications at once. <br>cm -- if
I've got this right -- doesn't do that. And seems to have advantages for
manipulating note values, timing, etc., things which can be done
directly in csound, but relatively clumsily. )<br>--------------<br></div>The two programs could be linked via OSC, but the simplest way I've found to send notes to csound is to run it with "-L somefifo" in the command line, then throw score lines into that fifo.<br><br></div>[Is there some easier built-in provision for real-time csound in cm, or is it pretty much limited to producing scores to be run later?]<br><br>--------------------------<br></div>Will I need to keep opening-&-closing the fifo, to keep it clearing the buffer as soon as it's time for a new score line to play? (Many programs tend to hang on to a file they're writing to, which leads to all the notes being held until the file is closed, when they all burst out at once.)<br><br></div>Suggestions?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Forrest Curo<br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">San Diego<br></font></span></div>
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