Csound Power!
1. The World of Csound. Why Use Csound? Why You Might Not Want to Use Csound. A Quick History of Csound. Resources: Mailing List; The Online Wiki Manual; How to Use the Canonical Manual; Books for Further Study. 2. Downloading & Installing. Choosing the Correct Version: -d vs. -f Versions; When to Use an Older Version. Running the Installer: Windows; Macintosh; The Many Flavors of Linux. Setting Up Your System. Audio I/O: Real-Time Output vs. Rendering; What Are Portaudio and Jack? Testing Your Setup. What the Console Output Means. Running Csound from the Command Line. Command-Line Flags. 3. The Structure of a .csd File. The .orc/.sco File Concept. Tags. The Orchestra Header. Adding Comments to Your Code. Macros. Compiler Error Messages. 4. Using the QuteCsound Interface. The Main Windows. The Configuration Box. The Editor Window: Fixing Known Editor Glitches in Windows. Widgets. Accessing the Manual. Syntax Hints. Live Events. 5. Building Your Own Instruments. instr and endin. i- vs. k- vs. a-. p-fields and p-values. A Simple Tutorial Instrument. Adding Features to the Tutorial Instrument. Adding Still More Features. Logic and Flow Control. Debugging Tips: Common Errors; Using Print Statements. 6. Writing a Score. i-statements. t-statements. f-statements. Looping Score Sections. Advancing the Clock. Using Macros. Creating Score Events from Within the Orchestra. 7. Thirty Opcodes You Must Know. What Is an Opcode? Tone Generators: Basic Oscillators; FM Synthesis; Granular Synthesis; Formant Synthesis; Sample Playback. Envelopes. Filters. Noise Generators. Global Signal Routing. The Important GEN Routines. Table Operations. Panning. Dynamics. Analysis and Resynthesis. User-Defined Opcodes. Sound Design in Csound -- Principles & Ideas. 8. Other Front Ends. blue. WinXsound. Cecilia. AthenaCL. 9. Using Csound with MIDI. Setting Up a MIDI System. The MIDI Opcodes. Performance Considerations. 10. Other Options for Real-Time Use. OSC. Real-Time Audio Processing. Using Csound with Pd. 11. Creating Audio Effects. Delay. Reverb. Waveshaping. Chorusing. 12. Algorithmic Composition Using Python.