[Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?

[Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?

Date	2014-08-12 20:03
From	Forrest Cahoon
Subject	[Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?
	Hey Csounders! I'm going to be doing an "intro to csound" tutorial soon, and I thought I'd start off with a few slides about the history of Csound. Here's what I have so far: slide #1: Some Historical Background ... * MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio waveforms through direct synthesis. * written by Max Mathews at Bell Labs in 1957 * not real-time: wrote audio samples to disk. Computers weren’t fast enough back then. * Had descendants MUSIC II, MUSIC III, etc., collectively known as MUSIC-N * … leading up to ... slide #2: The Birth of Csound * MUSIC-N program written in the C programming language by Barry Vercoe at MIT. First released in 1985. LGPL licensed. * Many programmers have continued to develop and improve Csound: * Csound 5 (2006): * CSD unified format * … more … * Csound 6 (2013): * New function syntax in orchestra supported * Android and iOS support * … more ... First, am I right with my years and features for Csound 5 and 6? Second, I'd like to have a few more bullet points; I was thinking 3 for each would fit my slide. I want to mention the Csound 5 CSD format (unless that was introduced earlier?) and the Csound 6 alternative function syntax in the orchestra, even if these aren't the most amazing advancements, because these are things I will be showing in the examples I will be giving. The other points should be the most amazing, wonderful things, to give the (correct) impression there is a vibrant community continuing to push Csound forward, and "old" does not equal "dead". Any suggestions, and especially corrections, would be most appreciated. Forrest

Date	2014-08-12 20:30
From	jpff@cs.bath.ac.uk
Subject	[Csnd] Re:
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Date	2014-08-12 20:36
From	Michael Gogins
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?
	Your wording could be interpreted to say that the license was always LGPL.The LGPL license did not originate with Vercoe. The original license was proprietary. The license was changed after numerous requests by the Csound community in the 2000s. Regards, Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Michael Gogins Irreducible Productions http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon@gmail.com> wrote: Hey Csounders! I'm going to be doing an "intro to csound" tutorial soon, and I thought I'd start off with a few slides about the history of Csound. Here's what I have so far: slide #1: Some Historical Background ... * MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio waveforms through direct synthesis. * written by Max Mathews at Bell Labs in 1957 * not real-time: wrote audio samples to disk. Computers weren’t fast enough back then. * Had descendants MUSIC II, MUSIC III, etc., collectively known as MUSIC-N * … leading up to ... slide #2: The Birth of Csound * MUSIC-N program written in the C programming language by Barry Vercoe at MIT. First released in 1985. LGPL licensed. * Many programmers have continued to develop and improve Csound: * Csound 5 (2006): * CSD unified format * … more … * Csound 6 (2013): * New function syntax in orchestra supported * Android and iOS support * … more ... First, am I right with my years and features for Csound 5 and 6? Second, I'd like to have a few more bullet points; I was thinking 3 for each would fit my slide. I want to mention the Csound 5 CSD format (unless that was introduced earlier?) and the Csound 6 alternative function syntax in the orchestra, even if these aren't the most amazing advancements, because these are things I will be showing in the examples I will be giving. The other points should be the most amazing, wonderful things, to give the (correct) impression there is a vibrant community continuing to push Csound forward, and "old" does not equal "dead". Any suggestions, and especially corrections, would be most appreciated. Forrest

Date	2014-08-12 20:49
From	Forrest Cahoon
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?
	Thanks for the clarification; that was my mis-reading of the Wikipedia page. On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Michael Gogins <michael.gogins@gmail.com> wrote: Your wording could be interpreted to say that the license was always LGPL.The LGPL license did not originate with Vercoe. The original license was proprietary. The license was changed after numerous requests by the Csound community in the 2000s. Regards, Mike ----------------------------------------------------- Michael Gogins Irreducible Productions http://michaelgogins.tumblr.com Michael dot Gogins at gmail dot com On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon@gmail.com> wrote: Hey Csounders! I'm going to be doing an "intro to csound" tutorial soon, and I thought I'd start off with a few slides about the history of Csound. Here's what I have so far: slide #1: Some Historical Background ... * MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio waveforms through direct synthesis. * written by Max Mathews at Bell Labs in 1957 * not real-time: wrote audio samples to disk. Computers weren’t fast enough back then. * Had descendants MUSIC II, MUSIC III, etc., collectively known as MUSIC-N * … leading up to ... slide #2: The Birth of Csound * MUSIC-N program written in the C programming language by Barry Vercoe at MIT. First released in 1985. LGPL licensed. * Many programmers have continued to develop and improve Csound: * Csound 5 (2006): * CSD unified format * … more … * Csound 6 (2013): * New function syntax in orchestra supported * Android and iOS support * … more ... First, am I right with my years and features for Csound 5 and 6? Second, I'd like to have a few more bullet points; I was thinking 3 for each would fit my slide. I want to mention the Csound 5 CSD format (unless that was introduced earlier?) and the Csound 6 alternative function syntax in the orchestra, even if these aren't the most amazing advancements, because these are things I will be showing in the examples I will be giving. The other points should be the most amazing, wonderful things, to give the (correct) impression there is a vibrant community continuing to push Csound forward, and "old" does not equal "dead". Any suggestions, and especially corrections, would be most appreciated. Forrest

Date	2014-08-16 18:37
From	David Mooney
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?
	According to the manual, csd was added in version 4.09 --David Mooney On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Forrest Cahoon <forrest.cahoon@gmail.com> wrote: Hey Csounders! I'm going to be doing an "intro to csound" tutorial soon, and I thought I'd start off with a few slides about the history of Csound. Here's what I have so far: slide #1: Some Historical Background ... * MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio waveforms through direct synthesis. * written by Max Mathews at Bell Labs in 1957 * not real-time: wrote audio samples to disk. Computers weren’t fast enough back then. * Had descendants MUSIC II, MUSIC III, etc., collectively known as MUSIC-N * … leading up to ... slide #2: The Birth of Csound * MUSIC-N program written in the C programming language by Barry Vercoe at MIT. First released in 1985. LGPL licensed. * Many programmers have continued to develop and improve Csound: * Csound 5 (2006): * CSD unified format * … more … * Csound 6 (2013): * New function syntax in orchestra supported * Android and iOS support * … more ... First, am I right with my years and features for Csound 5 and 6? Second, I'd like to have a few more bullet points; I was thinking 3 for each would fit my slide. I want to mention the Csound 5 CSD format (unless that was introduced earlier?) and the Csound 6 alternative function syntax in the orchestra, even if these aren't the most amazing advancements, because these are things I will be showing in the examples I will be giving. The other points should be the most amazing, wonderful things, to give the (correct) impression there is a vibrant community continuing to push Csound forward, and "old" does not equal "dead". Any suggestions, and especially corrections, would be most appreciated. Forrest -- Opaque Melodies http://opaquemelodies.com

Date	2014-08-20 19:25
From	joachim heintz
Subject	Re: [Csnd] Csound history -- is this right?
	hey forrest - you may want to have a look at the interviews i did with john and richard for the proceedings of the csound conference in hannover. they are available in the sample reading at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/61440 (richard's interview missing the very end). best - joachim Am 12.08.2014 um 21:03 schrieb Forrest Cahoon: > Hey Csounders! > > I'm going to be doing an "intro to csound" tutorial soon, and I thought > I'd start off with a few slides about the history of Csound. > > Here's what I have so far: > > slide #1: > > Some Historical Background ... > > * MUSIC was the first computer program for generating digital audio > waveforms through direct synthesis. > > * written by Max Mathews at Bell Labs in 1957 > > * not real-time: wrote audio samples to disk. Computers weren’t fast > enough back then. > > * Had descendants MUSIC II, MUSIC III, etc., collectively known as MUSIC-N > > * … leading up to ... > > slide #2: > > The Birth of Csound > > * MUSIC-N program written in the C programming language by Barry Vercoe > at MIT. First released in 1985. LGPL licensed. > > * Many programmers have continued to develop and improve Csound: > * Csound 5 (2006): > * CSD unified format > * … more … > > * Csound 6 (2013): > * New function syntax in orchestra supported > * Android and iOS support > * … more ... > > > > First, am I right with my years and features for Csound 5 and 6? > Second, I'd like to have a few more bullet points; I was thinking 3 for > each would fit my slide. > > I want to mention the Csound 5 CSD format (unless that was introduced > earlier?) and the Csound 6 alternative function syntax in the orchestra, > even if these aren't the most amazing advancements, because these are > things I will be showing in the examples I will be giving. > > The other points should be the most amazing, wonderful things, to give > the (correct) impression there is a vibrant community continuing to push > Csound forward, and "old" does not equal "dead". > > Any suggestions, and especially corrections, would be most appreciated. > > Forrest >