Here's some info on where to get "csound": ---------------(begin included text)---------------- >From: johnd@lloyd.Camex.COM (John Duesenberry) >Newsgroups: comp.music >Subject: Re: Help with variable frequency sine wave synthesis >Date: 3 Apr 92 15:19:27 GMT >Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA Several people have requested info about the CSound sound synthesis language and how to get it. As to what it is: I don't have time for a detailed exposition. I'll just say that CSound is a general-purpose synthesis langauge developed by Barry Vercoe at MIT. It employs the "orchestra/score" model used by earlier related languages such as MUSIC V, MUSIC 4BF, MUSIC 11, and so on. If you are unfamiliar with the concepts behind such languages I would suggest COMPUTER MUSIC by Dodge and Jerse (Schirmer Books) as a place to start. The manual provided from MIT is really lousy. CSound is available free for a variety of Unix boxes and on the Mac; there is also a commercial version for DOS machines available from Micro Technology Unlimited (MTU). I am a Mac hacker and have little info on the Unix/DOS versions so I can't provide info on them except for where to get them.(below) The Mac version outputs AIFF files which can be played back over the Mac speaker(ecch!), but the use of better conversion hardware such as Digidesign's Audiomedia or Sound Tools is HIGHLY recommended. To get the Mac version, I would strongly recommend dialing up to the Berklee College of Music Mac BBS: (617) 424-8318. There you will find a CSound SIG which has the entire CSound distribution nicely bundled up into several compressed archives. This includes the program itself, the manual, many useful tutorials, full source code in THINK C, and several very useful related utility programs. It's well worth the small registration fee to join the BBS, which is worthy of support from all of us. They have lots of MIDI-related stuff too! Both the Unix and the Mac versions are available via anonymous ftp from MIT as well. The site is: ems.media.mit.edu. Connect to the directory "pub", and get the file csound.README. This will give further instructions on what files you should snarf. I don't have contact info for MTU, the source of the DOS version. (They don't sell it separately, but bundle it with various A/D conversion and other hardware products.) Check ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN or COMPUTER MUSIC JOURNAL for ads. I'm NOT a CSound guru and can't give any help on the Unix/DOS versions. I do have a fair working knowledge of the Mac version and can try to answer questions. [Note: there is an FTP site in the UK which has a PC version of csound; I will add that information here as soon as I can get the details. -- JM]