Will a fusion of both standard executuable and DirectCsound be available in the future?
I hope so. Until now each of these versions has its own features. The problem is that John Fitch, the administrator of standard version, moves Csound towards objectives different from those of mine. My main objective and need is to use Csound with realtime controllers (by means of MIDI or other more advanced devices). So my efforts are mainly directed toward transforming Csound into a fast, powerful, interactive and easily controllable performance tool. Part of my code is device dependent, so porting it in other platforms it is not a trivial job. Actually, the efforts of John Fitch are mainly directed towards compatibility in different platform. A recent Fitch s direction is adding the programming modules of commercial analog synthesizers (such as ADSR envelope, LFO etc.) to Csound. I don t fully agree with this direction because older opcodes (linseg, expseg and oscil) are already implemented and they are a more powerful superset of the new JPFF opcodes.
