[Csnd] microcsound20100803
Date | 2010-08-12 19:55 |
From | Aaron Krister Johnson |
Subject | [Csnd] microcsound20100803 |
Hi all, I just wanted to mention, a few days late, that a newer version of microcsound is out. The most significant change is now interactive mode is easier b/c it has a sensible default for turning on the ZAK mixer and setting mixer and reverb levels, meaning one only has to change things if one doesn't want those defaults for some reason. If you are interested in exploring just intonation, equal divisions of the octave, equal divisions of non-octaves, general tuning and microtonal theory, etc. in a very convenient and quick command line interface, this is the tool for you. AND--it is a very convenient scoring front-end, even if you don't use microtones!!! (just set div=12 and you don't have to even think about it; much better than typing scores by hand) :) Developed/tested on Linux, but should work on any platform that has Python and Csound. Windows users will have to figure out how to untar and un-compress a .tgz file, though! http://www.akjmusic.com/packages/microcsound2010003.tgz Steven, I'm still interested in how this might be integrated with Blue--you said some intriguing things a while back. And, you know, this is a small enough script (w/o the extra supplied harpsichord soundfont) that I wonder if it couldn't be packaged right along with Csound at some point, or at least mentioned on the Csound front ends page at www.csounds.com?? -- Best, Aaron Krister Johnson http://www.akjmusic.com http://www.untwelve.org |
Date | 2010-08-12 20:08 |
From | Steven Yi |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: microcsound20100803 |
Hi Aaron, If it's just using python libraries and no external libraries that have native dependencies, it should "just work" in blue. I tried downloading the link just now but it didn't work (maybe a permissions issue on server?). Once I can download it I'll take a look and see about doing a demo blue project to demonstrate how that'd work. If it works out, I could package the program with blue as part of it's python libraries. Thanks! steven On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Aaron Krister Johnson |
Date | 2010-08-12 20:11 |
From | Aaron Krister Johnson |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: Re: microcsound20100803 |
OOPS!! my bad---I mistyped a link: try this: http://www.akjmusic.com/packages/microcsound20100803.tgz
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Aaron, -- Best, Aaron Krister Johnson http://www.akjmusic.com http://www.untwelve.org |
Date | 2010-08-12 20:21 |
From | Aaron Krister Johnson |
Subject | [Csnd] Re: Re: microcsound20100803 |
Steven, I just gave you a corrected link, which works from here...here itis again: http://www.akjmusic.com/packages/microcsound20100803.tgz What microcsound does is produce a .sco output from a given .mc file (or live typed .mc text), and/or if it's used interactively, in realtime, i.e. with reference to some .orc file on a system, it sends a csound command with appropriate command-line args and the 'compiled' score file to the system, which can then run it in real-time. Otherwise, by default, it compiles the score and a default or referenced .orc file into a wav file output, using Csound of course. If this works somehow in the blue architecture, that's sweet. I imagine it'd be neat to have a .mc file 'interpreted' into blue's architecture so it can have a JavaGUI representation, or vice versa....eventually, I'm going to develop a way of turning .mc files into .abc files, for abcm2ps, since they are so close in syntax (on purpose). This way, one can have a printed score should one want. I know that there is microabc, but I found that it's syntax was a little to much for me---every note needed brackets for the macro preprocessor, so I thought "that's too much typing" :) AKJ On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Steven Yi <stevenyi@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Aaron, -- Best, Aaron Krister Johnson http://www.akjmusic.com http://www.untwelve.org |