CsoundAC stands for "Csound Algorithmic Composition." I use it every day for 
composing music.

CsoundAC supports algorithmic composition with a scene-graph type 
description of musical structure, the ability to import and export MIDI 
files, various random sequence generators, some powerful fractal generators, 
(new) facilities for voice-leading, chord progression, and chord voicing, 
and the ability to generate Csound scores and use Csound as an orchestra for 
realizing generated scores (via the csnd Python extension module's CppSound 
class).

On Windows, the whole stack, from the bottom up, is as follows:

csound64.dll.5.1, the Csound C API shared library, in other words Csound 
proper, which is linked to by...

csnd.dll, which implements CppSound, a C++ wrapper for the Csound C API, 
which also includes the ability to load and save Csound files to and from 
internal storage, pick arrangements out of Csound orchestras, and so on, 
which is linked to by CsoundAC.dll and also by...

_csnd.pyd, SWIG-generated C stubs for CppSound, in other words, a low-level 
procedural Python extension module for CppSound named _csnd, which is loaded 
by...

csnd.py, SWIG-generated Python class proxies for _csnd, in other words, a 
high-level object-oriented Python extension module for CppSound named csnd, 
which is loaded by Python scripts that use Csound;

CsoundAC.dll, a C++ class library for algorithmic composition (which also 
links with csnd.dll), which is linked to by...

_CsoundAC.pyd, SWIG-generated C stubs for the classes in CsoundAC, in other 
words, a low-level procedural Python extension module for the CsoundAC 
classes named _CsoundAC, which is loaded by...

CsoundAC.py, SWIG-generated Python class proxies for _CsoundAC, in other 
words, a high-level object-oriented Python extension module for the CsoundAC 
classes named CsoundAC, which is loaded by Python scripts that use CsoundAC.

Note that there are wrappers for csnd.dll in Lua, Java, and Lisp as well as 
Python; it would be very easy to create new such wrappers for any 
SWIG-supported language.

Note also that C and C++ programs can directly link to csound64.dll.5.1, and 
C++ programs can directly link to csnd.dll and CsoundAC.dll, as the C++ 
classes are directly exported.

Hope this helps,
Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Felipe Sateler" 
To: "Michael Gogins" ; "Developer discussions" 

Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Cs-dev] Csound front page at SF and FAQ



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