On Dec 11, 2007 6:12 AM, Emre Sevinc <emre.sevinc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear csounders,
>
> I'll give a very brief presentation on Music and AI to a class who is
> taking a course titled Musix & GNU/Linux at Istanbul Bilgi University
> CS dept. given by Dr. Ruhan Ikeda.

Very cool.  I'm told again and again when I mention Linux in Romania
that "We aren't really into that yet."  And I wonder at how one could
be aware of this, and know it's coming, and not therefore be
interested.  I guess by not being a geek.

> So which Csound pieces (im .mp3 format) would you advise me to
> download and make those students listen?

I'm blown away by 'Electric Priest' by Tobias Enhus at:
http://www.csounds.com/compositions/index.html

> Another question: They are using Common Music from Taube and I'm sure
> they learned how to create some MIDI files. I would like to show them
> they can use Csound as the ultimate synthesizer to give life and sound
> to their MIDI output. What would you suggest for that? Get some MIDI
> file (for example?) and render it using Csound (how? since I haven't
> tried that before and I'm not a csound expert)?

The -F or --midifile flag will take score input from a MIDI file.  I
haven't used MIDI input much myself, but I believe the opcodes to
check out are:
veloc, midictrl, notnum, ctrl7, ctrl14, ctrl21, massign, and pgmassign

-Chuckk

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