No, I don't think Csound is behind PD insofar
realtime control is concerned. In fact, I don't think
Csound is behind PD at all in any point.

I don't think Csound is too old-school for teaching.  
You could, for instance, use Csound with
Audacity through csladspa; so the students can
design their own effects etc..

I'd say dodge & jerse, Csound book and you're
good.

Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt J. Ingalls" <ingalls@mills.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007 10:48 pm
Subject: [Csnd] teaching csound: textbook, PD, etc
To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk

> 
> well i'm starting to think about my class (inherited from Jim 
> Hearon) in 
> the spring -- it has been acoustics & synthesis using Csound and 
> whatever 
> freeware audio editor is available (the school will NOT purchase 
> any 
> software) - using the Dodge as a textbook.
> 
> but at least right now i'm feeling this all is so "old school" 
> and was 
> wondering if any of you out there have any opinions on teaching, 
> software, 
> or textbooks?
> 
> of course PD and Miller Puckette's new book is the first 
> alternative that 
> comes to mind..  however at first glance i see the first 
> page starts with 
> the equation of a sine wave
> and that's not going to go over well with my students..
> 
> i also see that he says:
> 
> "Csound is better adapted
> than Pd for batch processing and it handles polyphony much 
> better than
> Pd does. On the other hand, Pd has a better developed real-time 
> controlstructure than Csound."
> 
> is that last statement really true (anymore)?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> matt
> 
> 
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