Hi Bert,
I never want to discourage people from taking on
projects that they find interesting, but I think
this idea
>I believe such a standard is essential: it would allow to interchange
>instruments between CSound, SAOL, and several realtime popular software
>synthesizers.
is much more difficult than you think. This was our
initial idea of what MPEG-4 SA should be---some kind of
interchange format that would allow the use of any
software synth to play back content.
But it rapidly became clear that this idea is untenable.
The different software synthesizers---Csound, SAOL,
SuperCollider, Nyquist, and the commerical graphical
ones---all have different underlying conceptions of
events, signals, opcodes, and functions that makes it
impossible to have a single format that captures
anything but the very simplest aspects of behavior.
So now the MPEG-4 SA argument is that SAOL itself *is*
the exchange format, and that other softsynths will,
in time, come to support SAOL. From this point of
view, your present work on QOrchestra is likely to
be much more valuable and important in the long term
IMHO than trying to solve the short-term incompatibility
problems today.
Just my two cents,
-- Eric
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