Thread: Scripts Writing Scripts

Hi

I've been learning to write music with Csound and C programming languages. During a performance I would need to launch a Csound script to play a selection of sounds. Each new script will be of similar design as the previous except I would need it be able to have access to a new collection of sound to perform the next song. Can scripts be designed which can be launched to "rewrite" text within a script in this case audio file names?
I was basically wondering what sort of concepts/methods exist for what Im trying to achieve here.

Thank you for reading

I looked up Csound, as I'm not familiar with it, but am also interested in computer based composing.
Csound 6 may have something that will do what you want:

"The orchestra can be re-compiled at any time, or individual instruments can be compiled at any time,
during a running performance. This enables true "live coding" in Csound performances."

That is from here:

Csound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What type of music are you performing?

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For dos / windows batch files, you can use the echo command with redirected output to create a text file. Echo should work with parameters (%1, %2), which would be on the command line with the batch file that includes the echo command. The batch files also have a for loop command sequence which can be used to iterate through a range of numbers or a list of file names (create a list of files with special names in the same directory as needed). Beyond this, you'll probably need to create a program to generate scripts.

Thank you for your replies. I just wanted to mention when rcgldr mentioned what windows does which was interesting and I think begins to fall in line with the concept if using an API perhaps? However I hoping to get this to work on the Raspberry Pi/Raspien OS and Im becoming aware that one of the aethetics I like of a nice script is alot of the designs can run on any OS.