EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 63, Issue 14 This issue's topics: Csound Randomization... What is this...CSOUND? (6 messages) Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Apr 1994 13:53:10 -0500 From: HOMEYLEDIEU Subject: Csound Randomization... I am fairly new at Csound and I was wondering if any of you have any tips on how to randomize either pitch or modulating frequencies or anything cool using sort of a random number generation loop. Whatever. you think will help would be appreciated. Peace, Doug georgedj@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 15:03:31 -0500 From: Jeff Wheeler Subject: What is this...CSOUND? Hi, I read a message this a.m. that was a response to the "Newbie Guy", where the respondent(sorry, I didn't save the message & I'm terrible with names) mentioned CSOUND as a software synthesizer and that it was available by anonymous ftp. IS THIS TRUE?? If so how is the sound created by the software/hardware? What hardware is needed. I'm assuming that you at least need a soundcard of some type. Yes/No? If anyone can provide me more info and an ftp site where this would be located, I would appreciate it!! Also, I seemed to have lost the info on how to retrieve and unzip .tar files. If any one would so kind as to post a message on how and what utilities are needed to use this I would be beholden to you! Thanks, Jeff HEY NICK, I hope you got your modem back on line. * * * * * * JKW Experimental Multimedia * * * ** * Jeffrey K. Wheeler ** * * jwheeler@bigcat.missouri.edu * * * * * * snailmail: 3600 E Hidden Ln. * * * * * * Hartsburg, Missouri 65039-9774 U.S.A. ******** * * voice: 314-657-2538 ____________________________________________________________________________ "The trouble with normal is it always gets worse!" - Bruce Cockburn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 7 Apr 1994 17:29:56 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: What is this...CSOUND? >Hi, >I read a message this a.m. that was a response to the "Newbie Guy", where >the respondent(sorry, I didn't save the message & I'm terrible with >names) mentioned CSOUND as a software synthesizer and that it was >available by anonymous ftp. > >IS THIS TRUE?? > Yes. BUT... >If so how is the sound created by the software/hardware? What hardware is >needed. > Anything that can run C programs to generate the sound. Some kind of DSP card capable of playing back AIFF files for output. Lots and lots and lots and lots of compute time. We're talking 10 to 1 or greater for computing. As I have preiously remarked, there is no such thing as real-time csound improvisation. Yet. If you are a composer in the classic mold (i.e., write it all out first and then get it performed), csound may be very useful for you. However, you will have to get used to the idea of starting up a run in the evening and then listening to it in the morning to see if it worked out okay. --- Joe M. ------------------------------------------------------------- "Team Metlay -- a street gang with synths." (D.A.C. Crowell) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 10:20:34 EST From: Osman Giuseppe Gioia Subject: Re: What is this...CSOUND? Hello Jeff I think you can get the Csound software through ftp media-lab.media.mit.edu. The sound is created by a binary archive who is passed through a D/A converter (digital to analog converter). You can use any board that contains a digital wave processor like sonu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 10:33:46 EST From: Osman Giuseppe Gioia Subject: Re: What is this...CSOUND? Hello Jeff Jeffrey K. Wheeler jwheeler@bigcat.missouri.edu _______________________________________________________ I think you can get a copy of Csound at the ftp site of IRCAM: ftp.ircam.fr, or at the MIT ftp site: media-lab.media.mit.edu To run Csound you'll need a computer with a C compiler and a board that can process digital audio, like soundblaster, roland rap10, or a D/A converter board (digital to audio converter). You can get the tar utilities trough: 530-USA Sites: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4] (Missouri) 530- grind.isca.uiowa.edu [128.255.21.233] (Iowa) 530- gatekeeper.dec.com [16.1.0.2] 530- ftp.cdrom.com [192.153.46.2] (California) 530- polecat.law.indiana.edu [129.79.131.170] 530- ftp.marcam.com [198.102.216.30] 530-Non-USA Sites: monu6.cc.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.106] (Australia) 530- nic.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] (Finland) 530- ftp.uni-paderborn.de [131.234.2.32] (Germany) 530- ftp.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.8.13] 530- ftp.uni-koeln.de [134.95.100.208] 530- ftp.uni-regensburg.de [132.199.1.17] 530- ftp.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.50] (Tokyo) 530- ftp.nectec.or.th [192.150.251.32] (Thailand) 530- ftp.technion.ac.il [132.68.1.10] (Israel) 530- nic.switch.ch [130.59.1.40] (Zurich) 530- src.doc.ic.ac.uk [146.169.2.1] (London) 530- ntu.ac.sg [155.69.1.5] (Singapore) 530- nctuccca.edu.tw [192.83.166.10] (Taiwan) 530- ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl [149.156.1.8] (Cracow, Poland) Goodbye Osman Giuseppe Gioia zeppe@cic.unb.br ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 00:33:14 -0400 From: William Eldridge Subject: Re: What is this...CSOUND? Dear Joe McMahon: You wrote: > As I have preiously remarked, there is no such thing as real-time > csound improvisation. > Yet. Two years ago Csound's author Barry Vercoe gave a lecture demonstration before a NEWCOMP (New England Computer Arts Assoc.) concert in Cambridge, MA. He plugged a DX-7's MIDI output into a Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo and played some realtime Bach with 8-note chords. The Csound instruments were FM violin sounds of simple to moderate complexity. The SG machine is a "low-cost" ($10,000 on up) RISC workstation used primarily for animation and video, but which is also great for audio, containing built-in digital and analog audio I/O. You can plug a CD-player into it and see a beautiful realtime color FFT of the music. I'm hoping that the eventual port of Csound to native PowerMac code will bring this power down to us groundlings. The exciting thing is less being able to turn a computer into a DX-7 than the fact that a computer that's fast enough to do that should be able to compute that REALLY complex passage in an hour instead of overnight. -- Bill Eldridge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:52:27 -0400 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: What is this...CSOUND? >Two years ago Csound's author Barry Vercoe gave a lecture demonstration >before a NEWCOMP (New England Computer Arts Assoc.) concert in Cambridge, >MA. He plugged a DX-7's MIDI output into a Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo >and played some realtime Bach with 8-note chords. The Csound instruments >were FM violin sounds of simple to moderate complexity. Oh my... > >The SG machine is a "low-cost" ($10,000 on up) (Ouch.) >RISC workstation used >primarily for animation and video, but which is also great for audio, >containing built-in digital and analog audio I/O. You can plug a CD-player >into it and see a beautiful realtime color FFT of the music. > Yeah. There are a few here in the visualization studio (we have at least one Crimson as well). Maybe I can wangle some time on them ... >I'm hoping that the eventual port of Csound to native PowerMac code will >bring this power down to us groundlings. The exciting thing is less being >able to turn a computer into a DX-7 than the fact that a computer that's >fast enough to do that should be able to compute that REALLY complex >passage in an hour instead of overnight. Yes. I have very high hopes that the PowerPC will finally bring Csound to the masses (so to speak). --- Joe M. ----------------------------------------- "It's delightfully stupid." - N. Rothwell ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************