THANKS! That sounds like a lot of fun! David 8-) gnome@hawaii.rr.com On 11 Nov 02, at 9:51, Tim Lavoie wrote:
"David" == David Jones <gnome@hawaii.rr.com> writes:
David> What is CSOUND? David gnome@hawaii.rr.com
Whoops, let's try this again.
Csound is an extremely powerful software sound synthesizer, with a huge raft of modules for different synth algorithms. Think of it more as an audio compiler, and you will get the idea. Here is more info:
http://stations.mp3s.com/stations/90/csound.html (some examples of Csound use)
The granular opcodes can do such things as play a brief impulse at varying rates, which makes a great air-raid siren, or play numerous small pieces of a sample. The latter doesn't have to be sequential either, it could select the location within the sample any number of ways, forwards, backwards, random etc.
The orchestra instruments are essentially programs, and the score is just a text file, so any number of front-end programs can be used to generate those; if you want to create a dragon curve of notes from within Perl, or some fancy GUI front-end, the core engine is the same.
Cheers, Tim