I've just received my first advance copy of Csound Power! Published by Course
Technology and available through the usual retail outlets, this book will
have little or nothing for power users, but my hope is that newcomers will
find it useful.

Thanks again to Andres, Steven, and many other individuals for their
technical help while I was writing this book.

--Jim Aikin

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Hello Jim

I have received mine about a week ago, and i live in Athens-Greece. :) :)
Congratulations are in order!
On small complaint though: where is the source code?

Panos





On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Jim Aikin wrote:

> I've just received my first advance copy of Csound Power! Published by Course
> Technology and available through the usual retail outlets, this book will
> have little or nothing for power users, but my hope is that newcomers will
> find it useful.
> 
> Thanks again to Andres, Steven, and many other individuals for their
> technical help while I was writing this book.
> 
> --Jim Aikin
> 
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> I have received mine about a week ago, and i live in Athens-Greece. :) :)
> Congratulations are in order!
> One small complaint though: where is the source code? 

Please accept my apologies on that point!

One of the reasons I kept the examples short was so I wouldn't have to
prepare a bunch of source code files. Also, my feeling is that people learn
more by typing the code themselves than by using copy-and-paste. The
projects in Chapter 3 could be assembled into source code files, but as I
was testing the code in the book I kept revising my CsoundQt files, so I'm
not sure I even _have_ complete source code on those projects.

That said, I would have prepared source code files for a website if Course
Technology had a budget item for that. They didn't. For my previous book for
them, "Picture Yourself Playing Cello," I had to acquire 95% of the photos
(at no cost to Course Technology), prepare all of the music notation
examples myself in Sibelius (no budget for that, either), and shoot the
video for the DVD myself (no budget for a video shoot -- I did it all with
my MacBook Pro).

So when the Csound book rolled around ... not to whine or anything, but I
just plain wasn't in the mood to do any extra work beyond the actual
writing. I did end up redoing the index, because it was a mess -- and by
golly, they paid me for doing it!

But at this point, the book is what it is. There are lots and lots of
examples of Csound code available online for free download, so I don't feel
that I'm depriving anyone of musically useful code.

I'm happy that Course Technology published the book at all! It was a little
outside the mainstream for them, but they went for it. I hope it will help
some people get started with Csound.

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Looks great Jim. I had no idea it was already out!

On 20 February 2012 19:13, Colman O'Reilly  wrote:
> Congratulations!  I'm eager to get my hands on a copy.
>
> All the best,
> Colman
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
>>
>> > I have received mine about a week ago, and i live in Athens-Greece. :)
>> > :)
>> > Congratulations are in order!
>> > One small complaint though: where is the source code?
>>
>> Please accept my apologies on that point!
>>
>> One of the reasons I kept the examples short was so I wouldn't have to
>> prepare a bunch of source code files. Also, my feeling is that people
>> learn
>> more by typing the code themselves than by using copy-and-paste. The
>> projects in Chapter 3 could be assembled into source code files, but as I
>> was testing the code in the book I kept revising my CsoundQt files, so I'm
>> not sure I even _have_ complete source code on those projects.
>>
>> That said, I would have prepared source code files for a website if Course
>> Technology had a budget item for that. They didn't. For my previous book
>> for
>> them, "Picture Yourself Playing Cello," I had to acquire 95% of the photos
>> (at no cost to Course Technology), prepare all of the music notation
>> examples myself in Sibelius (no budget for that, either), and shoot the
>> video for the DVD myself (no budget for a video shoot -- I did it all with
>> my MacBook Pro).
>>
>> So when the Csound book rolled around ... not to whine or anything, but I
>> just plain wasn't in the mood to do any extra work beyond the actual
>> writing. I did end up redoing the index, because it was a mess -- and by
>> golly, they paid me for doing it!
>>
>> But at this point, the book is what it is. There are lots and lots of
>> examples of Csound code available online for free download, so I don't
>> feel
>> that I'm depriving anyone of musically useful code.
>>
>> I'm happy that Course Technology published the book at all! It was a
>> little
>> outside the mainstream for them, but they went for it. I hope it will help
>> some people get started with Csound.
>>
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>>
>>
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>> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
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>> csound"
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>
>
>
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>
>
>

A hearty congratulations Jim!  I've long enjoyed and appreciated your
writing, whether it was in magazines, books, the Csound Journal, and
other formats.  I think this is great to have as a resource and hope
new users turn to it when they come to Csound.

Bravo!
steven

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Jim Aikin  wrote:
> I've just received my first advance copy of Csound Power! Published by Course
> Technology and available through the usual retail outlets, this book will
> have little or nothing for power users, but my hope is that newcomers will
> find it useful.
>
> Thanks again to Andres, Steven, and many other individuals for their
> technical help while I was writing this book.
>
> --Jim Aikin
>
> --
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>
>
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> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
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>

I've had my copy for a week or so...excellent book.  A much 
needed addition to the csound collection.  I especially 
appreciate the sections about setting up csound and csoundqt. 
Cleared up several issues for me.  Thanks, Jim
Bob Foose

On 13:59, Jim Aikin wrote:
> I've just received my first advance copy of Csound Power! Published by Course
> Technology and available through the usual retail outlets, this book will
> have little or nothing for power users, but my hope is that newcomers will
> find it useful.
>
> Thanks again to Andres, Steven, and many other individuals for their
> technical help while I was writing this book.
>
> --Jim Aikin
>
> --
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>

Greetings,

Got my copy of the book today, spent the afternoon perusing.

Definitely recommended. Clearly written, enthusiastic prose, published 
in a nice readable format, very comfortable on these olden eyes.

Excellent work, Jim ! The community owes you a beverage or two. :)

Best,

dp

For those of you on the music-dsp list, not sure if you are following but there is an interesting thread which has moved on to discuss the merits or lack of them of Csound. Ross Bencina in particular seems to be very critical, almost on a messianic level. Some of the responses appeared to me to be a bit ott.

Anyway, interesting read...

Victor