Okay, (finally) getting another look at the examples... What I think ChuckSound does, if you use Paul Batchelor's class 'CSEngine' (from the example file with that name) you can use chucK to compile and run one entire csd per shred -- which can be pretty near a blank template where instruments can be effectively added by other shreds via the function eval() and have notes sent to that instrument by any shred using that same public class. I gather that multiple notes could be sent to that same instrument, or several such instruments, for that same instance of the class to send to chucK for rendering into actual sound. (If I've got the way this works wrong, please correct, but I'm going to see how it works out!) On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Forrest Curo wrote:

Paul Batchelor mentioned this in a recent thread; it's

a chugin that allows for the use of csound instruments inside chucK.

his article about it is here: http://csoundjournal.com/issue21/chuck_sound.html

and it can be picked up here:

https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/ChuckSound .

A question that came up in the course of using it: If I use one csd file containing several instruments (and some global set-up instructions in the header section) can I use one shred to play multiple notes on multiple csound instruments in that file simultaneously? -- or do I need multiple shreds? -- and can they share the same header global variables?