CSound Support Roadmap Ideas

[marksweiss]

CSound Support Improvements

• NATIVE PY OPCODES! https://csound.com/docs/manual/py.html
• IN PROGRESS Play in PerformanceThread using the API
• Instrument base class
• Py type-hinted kw args
• Naming convention for CSound arg types: a, i, k, I, f
• Convention for arg order, out arg then varargs for in Args
• Arg type validation
• Doc string, repr() and IPython or other way of inquiring about args
• DONE str() that emits CSound instrument call
• Repeat above with UDF base class

What about the rest of CSound? It is still the host language.

• Templates and config args for init boilerplate
• Templates for instrument and UDF calls
• Template literals for CSound syntax

Scoreless CSound Approaches

• http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue20/scoreless.html
  and the entire "Csound: A Sound and Music Computing System" book in Scribd
• Can use the schedule opcode to run an instrument without score events
• Can use the event opcode to issue events within an instrument
• Instruments as Generators
  -- Can use loop and conditionals within an instrument
  -- Can stagger multiple schedule calls over a looping instrument to create patterns
  -- Can have one instrument schedule another instrument in the same CSD, so can arbitrarily chain instrument calls
  -- Can have an instrument schedule itself -- recursion
• Can create your own custom opcodes - functions, and call them from within instruments or other opcodes. These come after the init block but before the instrument blocks.