I'm curious about something. What's the transition to Csound 6 going to be
like for a user learning out of books pertaining to Csound 5? Will those
books have to be updated to support version 6 changes? Will code written in
version 5 be more or less compatible with version 6 (of course a few changes
are expected)?



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There is full compatibility from the first released version of Csound in 1986. There is good compatibility with MUSIC11 all the way back to the 1970s.
It might be also possible to convert MUSIC360 code to Csound, bringing it back to 1968. 

So there is no loss of relevance. Of course new features are only supported in Csound 6, but that has always been the case with new releases.

Victor
On 11 May 2013, at 12:50, John Colgrove wrote:

> I'm curious about something. What's the transition to Csound 6 going to be
> like for a user learning out of books pertaining to Csound 5? Will those
> books have to be updated to support version 6 changes? Will code written in
> version 5 be more or less compatible with version 6 (of course a few changes
> are expected)?
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I figured as much but I just wanted to ask. Although, I would never have
guessed full compatibility went that far back with Csound.

I never heard of MUSIC11 or MUSIC360. Then again, I probably wasn't even
thought of at that time! Haha



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hi

On Sat, 11 May 2013 07:59:32 -0400, Victor Lazzarini  
 wrote:
> There is full compatibility from the first released version of Csound in  
> 1986. There is good compatibility with MUSIC11 all the way back to the  
> 1970s.
> It might be also possible to convert MUSIC360 code to Csound, bringing  
> it back to 1968.

yeah- *this* is why i love csound [and open source in general]. of course,  
it's an amazing software synthesizer- flexible as water and like water  
allows its usefulness to manifest in different ways [realtime to orc/sco];  
but the kindness [maybe that's overstating, but maybe not] of the devs to  
think of all of those people making music with earlier versions, on old  
hardware, maybe in an institutional setting where things cannot be so  
readily upgraded, or maybe a particular artist only needs a very small set  
of the functionality ...

they are all taken into account as the software changes over time.

it almost restores my faith in humanity ... :-P

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Just to add that if you want to USE csound then the earlier books are
useful and correct.  If however you want to dive into the internals there
are significant changes.  compatability refers to user level, and in
particular pieces.

==John ff

So if I'm understanding this right, if I wanted to eventually develop opcodes
(mainly lua opcodes), that's where it would make a difference?


jpff wrote
> Just to add that if you want to USE csound then the earlier books are
> useful and correct.  If however you want to dive into the internals there
> are significant changes.  compatability refers to user level, and in
> particular pieces.
> 
> ==John ff





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