>Yes, in the long run SAOL/MPEG-4 systems will have extensive capability
>for effects processing and spatial rendering. The exact manner of
>doing this will likely be open to the implementor, as different
>platforms and applications have different speaker configurations
>and so forth.
>
>I will be adding the spatialization, at least in a rudimentary way,
>to SAOLC at some point, but that might not be soon.
>
I guess this would all be part of the output channel and driver section,
maybe sort of like how OMS patches a MIDI application to a device so SAOL
would patch a multichannel sco/orc piece to an N-speaker or stereo system.
One other interesting application I was thinking of for SAOL is for
non-MIDI real-time interaction. A good friend of mine has been touring
with Don Buchla and playing the Lighting infrared controllers for a number
of years, and is constantly frustrated by MIDI's thin channel of control.
If real-time SAOL could have handles to control any parameter of an
instrument given the appropriate sensors on the computer this could be
interesting. I'll be sending him the pointer to this list and hopefully
he'll join up once he comes back from his latest tour.
As a guitarist who sold his Pitchrider in frustration a number of years ago
I'd like to see a better access channel to sound myself. Does anybody out
there remember ZIPPI? This was a standard that seems pretty much dead in
the water right now that allowed this- maybe SAOL can get some ideas from
this. As an initial model/hint look at how people are hooking up MIDI
controllers to Csound instruments.
Of course in the short term we should be pounding on Eric's test compiler
and proving it out. What have people's experiences with that been? I've
just run some of his test instruments myself but hope to do more soon. Can
we start building up a collection of interesting instruments?
How's the object-oriented redesign going? Is this C-like syntax going
to stay for a while or is it likely to be supplanted by the OO syntax
(whatever it is) in the near or far future?
Steven Curtin
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