In taking a look at Michael Gogins's tutorial.pdf (principally because
there's a link to it from the Canonical Manual), I became at least mildly
curious about the status of both Python and CsoundVST.

Which versions of Python are compatible with Csound 5.11.1 for Windows? 2.6?
2.7? 3.1???

According to the tutorial, I may "need to add the directory where the
_CsoundVST.dll has been installed" to my PYTHONPATH environment variable.
But I don't seem to have that .dll anywhere, which makes adding it to the
PYTHONPATH just a tiny bit awkward. Can anyone offer a suggestion on how one
might proceed?

Also ... I've seen hints here and there that Csound can act as a host for
VST plug-ins. Are there some good instructions somewhere on how to set that
up?

Thanks for any hints.

--JA

Just to make life a bit more interesting: My Csound/bin directory is clearly
included in PYTHONPATH, and contains a file called _csnd.pyd (but no file
called csnd.py). When I try to import this into Python 2.7, using the
command provided in Michael's tutorial, I get the following output:

>>> import csnd

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
    import csnd
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Csound\bin\csnd.py", line 25, in 
    _csnd = swig_import_helper()
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Csound\bin\csnd.py", line 24, in
swig_import_helper
    return _mod
UnboundLocalError: local variable '_mod' referenced before assignment
>>> 

Can anyone offer some insight into what's going on here? Thanks!

--JA

(Oops ... that directory does in fact contain csnd.py. Sorry for the
confusion.)

--JA

Hi Mr. Jim,
Csound 5.11 and 5.12 need Python 2.6; on Windows You need to add the
directory of Your csound/bin to PYTHONPATH
(csnd.py and CsoundAC.py are there). After that You should be able to run
Python and import csnd or CsoundAC and go with
Mr. Gogins tutorial.

Better explanation by the experts.
Also, if You search for CsoundAC/CsoundVST (here on the forum) You will find
many discussions about and something helpful.

hope enough clear and helpful (i'm drinking my first coffe),
ciao,
francesco.

Hi,

Csound can host vst using the vst opcodes:
www.csounds.com/manual/html/vst4cs.html

Due to the VST licencing, these opcodes can't be distributed together
with Csound, so Michael makes them available, but I'm not sure where
(he has posted the link on this list a couple of times).

Cheers,
Andres

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
>
> In taking a look at Michael Gogins's tutorial.pdf (principally because
> there's a link to it from the Canonical Manual), I became at least mildly
> curious about the status of both Python and CsoundVST.
>
> Which versions of Python are compatible with Csound 5.11.1 for Windows? 2.6?
> 2.7? 3.1???
>
> According to the tutorial, I may "need to add the directory where the
> _CsoundVST.dll has been installed" to my PYTHONPATH environment variable.
> But I don't seem to have that .dll anywhere, which makes adding it to the
> PYTHONPATH just a tiny bit awkward. Can anyone offer a suggestion on how one
> might proceed?
>
> Also ... I've seen hints here and there that Csound can act as a host for
> VST plug-ins. Are there some good instructions somewhere on how to set that
> up?
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> --JA
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Python-CsoundVST-tp3324619p3324619.html
> Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
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They are on my personal web site at http://www.michael-gogins.com.

Regards,
Mike

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Andres Cabrera  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Csound can host vst using the vst opcodes:
> www.csounds.com/manual/html/vst4cs.html
>
> Due to the VST licencing, these opcodes can't be distributed together
> with Csound, so Michael makes them available, but I'm not sure where
> (he has posted the link on this list a couple of times).
>
> Cheers,
> Andres
>
> On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
>>
>> In taking a look at Michael Gogins's tutorial.pdf (principally because
>> there's a link to it from the Canonical Manual), I became at least mildly
>> curious about the status of both Python and CsoundVST.
>>
>> Which versions of Python are compatible with Csound 5.11.1 for Windows? 2.6?
>> 2.7? 3.1???
>>
>> According to the tutorial, I may "need to add the directory where the
>> _CsoundVST.dll has been installed" to my PYTHONPATH environment variable.
>> But I don't seem to have that .dll anywhere, which makes adding it to the
>> PYTHONPATH just a tiny bit awkward. Can anyone offer a suggestion on how one
>> might proceed?
>>
>> Also ... I've seen hints here and there that Csound can act as a host for
>> VST plug-ins. Are there some good instructions somewhere on how to set that
>> up?
>>
>> Thanks for any hints.
>>
>> --JA
>>
>> --
>> View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Python-CsoundVST-tp3324619p3324619.html
>> Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
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>>
>>
>
>
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The version of the tutorial you are looking at is probably not the
latest, as _CsoundVST.dll is no longer required to be in the
PYTHONPATH whereas _csnd.pyd and _CsoundAC.pyd are (if you want to use
csnd and CsoundAC in Python). The current version is installed with
the current Windows installer.

Python 2.6 is the only supported version for the Windows Csound
installer. This will have to change with the next release, as Python
2.6 is no longer available for download from obvious places. I suppose
we should move to Python 3 although this will require changes to a lot
of examples.

Regards,
Mike

On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
>
> In taking a look at Michael Gogins's tutorial.pdf (principally because
> there's a link to it from the Canonical Manual), I became at least mildly
> curious about the status of both Python and CsoundVST.
>
> Which versions of Python are compatible with Csound 5.11.1 for Windows? 2.6?
> 2.7? 3.1???
>
> According to the tutorial, I may "need to add the directory where the
> _CsoundVST.dll has been installed" to my PYTHONPATH environment variable.
> But I don't seem to have that .dll anywhere, which makes adding it to the
> PYTHONPATH just a tiny bit awkward. Can anyone offer a suggestion on how one
> might proceed?
>
> Also ... I've seen hints here and there that Csound can act as a host for
> VST plug-ins. Are there some good instructions somewhere on how to set that
> up?
>
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> --JA
>
> --
> View this message in context: http://csound.1045644.n5.nabble.com/Python-CsoundVST-tp3324619p3324619.html
> Sent from the Csound - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>
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I'm finding a link on your site for a download of the full 5.11.1
installation. Is there a link to just the vst4cs.dll file by itself? I mean,
I've already done an install. Also, as time goes on, 5.11.1 will drift out
of date. I'm using that version rather than 5.12.1, as there's a bug in the
latter that causes one of my pieces to crash. But wouldn't it be easier for
you to maintain to provide the dll by itself?

> But wouldn't it be easier for
> you to maintain to provide the dll by itself?

+1

Meanwhile I just uploaded the dll here for you:
http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/vst4cs.dll

Stef



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There might be a binary incompatibility, the complete download prevents that.

Regards,
Mike

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
> On 1/2/2011 9:52 AM, Stéphane Rollandin [via Csound] wrote:
>> > But wouldn't it be easier for
>> > you to maintain to provide the dll by itself?
>>
>> +1
>>
>> Meanwhile I just uploaded the dll here for you:
>> http://www.zogotounga.net/comp/vst4cs.dll
>
> Thanks, Stef. Got it. (Now I'll have to figure out what to do with it....)
>
> --JA
>
>
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