torstenanders

It looks like conTimbre would be a considerably larger collection of articulations and also better documented (e.g., I guess if you play a certain multiphonic you are able to learn how it was produced or vice versa, which is not the case with the IRCAM Solo Instruments), but its playability as a plugin from Opusmodus or a DAW seems to be less developed. In case you played already with it: how well does the latter work, now that they have support for VST and AU plugins?

Update: It seems the samples are the same as in version 1 (which are now > 10 years old and with the original problems like rel. few samples i.e. few velocity layers or no round robins to avoid machine gun effect and all very closely miked), but now the scripting and instrument is much improved, e.g., with legato phrasing now supported, streching/shrinking notes like transitions, a timbre control (e.g., could be used for avoiding the machine gun effect). However, reviews report that these new scripts are not perfect, e.g., key swit

I would very much appreciate some feedback, but I am already almost decided to get it in any case. We might perhaps work on an Opusmodus sound set together. I will only use a few instruments (currently I just need the cello), but would like to make a wide range of techniques available in Opusmodus. However, instrument key-switches etc. hopefully share patterns, so once one instrument is reasonably covered it should be possible to scale that at least for the other instruments in the same family. One problem might be that they keep standard (what they call classic) and

Hi guys, Did anyone of you already look into the rather new IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 by UVI? That might be nice to control from within Opusmodus with its wide range of extended techniques available. From what I can tell from the videos, this seems to be a clear improvement over the former version and also conTimbre in terms of sounds and playability. Anyone already tried it? UVI IRCAM Solo Instruments 2 - Avant-Garde Solo Instrument Collection WWW.UVI.NET 16 instruments, 550+ playing techniques, experience unparalleled depth and detai

BTW: Common Lisp has built-in tracing mechanisms, which happen to be more fine-grained and work automatically without any need to sprinkle explicit function calls like do-verbose in any definition at all. For example, there is the builtin trace: CLHS: Macro TRACE, UNTRACE CLHS.LISP.SE In case of an error (and only in case of an error), a full stack trace is usually automatically printed. This happens to be disabled in the standard Opusmodus editor, but works as normally in Common Lisp when using the Emacs Slime interface. For example, consid

Just evaluate this. (defparameter *do-verbose* nil "Enable or disable traces printed by do-verbose.") For some context see

Concerning own GUI applications: you can already do that. This is independent of Opusmodus. For example, on a Mac CCL (the Lisp compiler on which Opusmodus is built) has a built-in Cocoa Interface and Objective-C bridge. There also exist other GUI libraries for Lisp. For example, check out GUI toolkits LISPCOOKBOOK.GITHUB.IO A collection of examples of using Common Lisp

I cannot answer this for Janusz, but I can provide some further reflection on this. You could investigate how the Emacs-Slime interface talks to the CCL compiler, on which Opusmodus is based, and then use that same protocol for your purposes. Of course, this will always only work if on the machine in question Opusmodus is installed. Also, Opusmodus must be started first (which currently always starts the full IDE as well, AFAIK -- at least it does for me, and I use Opusmodus meanwhile mainly via the Slime interface). It is likely possible in principle to get around starting the fu

OK, no problem. Thanks for the feedback.

I just noted that the code I shared above depends on other definitions in my library (e.g., the function preview-score). Below is an update that instead uses only builtin Opusmodus functions. Holler in case this is not working for you, as the code on my machine is a bit different, and I did not test the code below... (specifically, the version below only works for the scores with instruments from the ps set gm, while my own code is more flexible, but then again depends on other custom definitions). ;; Emacs lisp code: put into your Emacs init file, e.g., ~/.emacs ;; Custom f

Has there perhaps been some change with the HTML rendering in the Assistant in recent months since August? On my Macbook Pro (OSX 10.12.6) with the latest Opusmodus version, (most) links are not followed anymore, and the CSS rendering is unreliable (can be missing but when the same page is reloaded it might be there -- sometimes multiple reloading is required; when reloading it again later, the CSS might be ignored again). Most importantly, however, I cannot select any text on the HTML page anymore, i.e. I cannot evaluate example code from HTML pages anymore. I export all the docum

Yes, I can specify that the attribute sends some MIDI messages like key switches or CC messages at the moment when the event with the attribute starts. However, for defining an attribute like ped1 I need to additionally specify a MIDI message to be send at the end of the note in question. And for defining an attribute ped I would need to be able to specify the following behaviour. ;; Pedal depressed for exactly two notes '(q c4 ped e4 g4 c5) ;; Pedal depressed for the whole phrase '((ped q c4 e4 g4 c5)) > You can define any attributes with DEF-SOUND-SET

Thanks a lot! Brief question just to clarify: the MIDI output of the existing ped and ped1 attributes cannot be defined with def-sound-set? Confirmation: The MIDI output of sost-ped and una-corda is working as well. For completeness, harm-ped (available for Pianoteq) is not. One of the reasons is that at least with Pianoteq 6 it should use CC 69 instead of CC 68 as specified in the pianoteq sound set, but that is not the only reason (seemingly the relevant text attribute is not even existing. Anyway, that is an only rarely used technique and available on

I am trying to add a new text attribute for half pedalling (later in my scoring application Dorico I can translate that into the proper pedalling notation) and then specify for playback the MIDI CC messages it would need to send (e.g., the new attribute half-pedal sets the damper-pedal CC set to 64). Naively, a simple solution seems to be to complement this half pedalling with a text attribute for releasing the pedal (rel-pedal sets damper-pedal to 0) as shown below. So, I added the following to my pianoteq sound set (besides defining these text attributes). :group omn full-pedal (Pe

Is it safe to completely delete the folders fr.lproj and it.lproj in /Applications/Opusmodus.app/Contents/Resources when I only need the English version? HD space is somewhat limited on my laptop and this amounts to half a GB which I seemingly do not need. The tricky bit is that I would need to delete these folders with every update, but hey Thanks! Best, Torsten