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EMUSIC-L Digest                                      Volume 56, Issue 13

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	Shareware Music V or similar? (4 messages)

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Date:         Mon, 20 Sep 1993 19:22:00 GMT
From:         Nick D James 
Subject:      Shareware Music V or similar?

   Does anyone know if there is a signal synthesis/processing language
(or application) that can be downloaded without charge?
Source code would be best..
       Thanks in advance,
               ...Nicholas James (njames@general.uoguelph.ca)

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Date:         Mon, 20 Sep 1993 17:21:16 -0400
From:         Joe McMahon 
Subject:      Re: Shareware Music V or similar?

>   Does anyone know if there is a signal synthesis/processing language
>(or application) that can be downloaded without charge?
>Source code would be best..
>       Thanks in advance,
>               ...Nicholas James (njames@general.uoguelph.ca)

Here's some info on where to get "csound":
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>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.
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There is also a program called M5Mac on the castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov ftp
server which is supposedly an implementation of MUSIC V for the Mac. I
haven't had time to try it much; it appears to be somewhat fragile and
quirky.

 --- Joe M.

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Date:         Mon, 20 Sep 1993 16:43:24 -0500
From:         Stephen David Beck 
Subject:      Re: Shareware Music V or similar?

Csound is available by anonymous-ftp from the mit media-lab.  Cmix
is available from princeton.  They are unix-based programs and are
easy to compile.  There is a Mac version of Csound also.
-sdb

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Date:         Wed, 22 Sep 1993 11:16:59 GMT
From:         J P Fitch 
Subject:      Re: Shareware Music V or similar?

There is also a free version of Csound available for the PC.  It can
be obtained by anon-ftp from ftp.bath.ac.uk:pub/jpff/..  or by e-mail
buy sending mail to info-server@maths.bath.ac.uk with a body saying
request: dream
topic: csound_386.zip
request: end Actually there are versions for 286, 386 486 and 386+fpt.  Also
examples etc.

I suggest looking at the README file as well.  Or get the Index from
the info-server.
==John

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