I fully understand you situation,
as I recognize my own feeling of being lost when I started out
experimenting whit granular synthesis techniques.

I would warmly recommend Curtis Roads' book "Microsound" if you want
to read up on the technique. I did not read it until after several
years of fooling around with the csound opcodes and trying to
understand how the technique works.
I practical investigation of the opcodes was mainly by editing one
paramteter at the time and listening a lot to the effect of the
editing, trying to familiarize myself with the effect of each
parameter. For me, using a GUI to tweak the parameter values did help
a lot, as I could easily change a parameter value and listen (as
opposed to typing a new value and rendering before listening).

I am sure someone else has more effective pedagogical methods for
learning to know granular synthesis. Maybe starting with some of the
simpler granular opcodes in csound would help you get started too.

best
Oeyvind
2007/9/11, Frank Pablo <frank_pablo@hotmail.com>:
> hello,
>           is there any way to explore the almost infinite fof posibilities
> without getting totally lost?
> Of course this happens with almost (or every) other opcode, but with this
> one it happens
> immediately (8 variables for each sound). Is any matter in math, acoustics,
> dsp, csound itself, programming and/or program that can help here?
>
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