| Fran,
Thanks so much for sharing this experience and these suggestions.
I will work to make the beginner experience a better on at cSounds.com
in the future.
Thanks also for your help with the examples in the manual.
Your reports have been really valuable.
Dr. B.
Dr. Richard Boulanger - rboulanger@berklee.edu
On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:18 AM, francibal wrote:
>
> Some personal confused notes about csound world.
>
> First of all: please i don't know english well and i'll try to
> explain my
> thought as better as possible for me. Hope it will be intelligible.
>
> Also note that i am a really beginner, without knowledge in computer
> system,
> and then please apologize some stupid question.
>
>
> -1 Is it possible to have, at least on windows, a default setting for
> RTaudio that allows to hear all examples without clicks or stepper
> play ?
> This without regards to latency (but to quality yes), only for the
> first
> times that one run csound. After, when user will be more confident
> with
> system, he will be able to find his better audio settings.
> This is because some times i try an examples (always in RT, i want
> to hear
> immediatly the result!) and i hear a fragmented sound.
> Maybe it is possible to have some differents .csoundrc files with
> differents
> names and settings, i.e. for RTaudio out only, RT audio in and out
> (then
> latency), only midi setup, audio and midi, etc.
>
> -2 It would be possible to have a folder with many of the existing
> resources, manual, Gogins tutorial, Dr. B. tootorial, and, if not
> all other
> resources at least a link list, to scanned synt. tutorial, csound
> journal,
> csound magazine, etc. There are many beautiful resources but more
> scattered.
> (i see that it's yet at work).
>
> -3 There are some opcodes for file info (filelen, ..., ftlen, ...).
> Is it
> possible to have a single opcode that give all info like different
> argument
> and then one use that he needs ? Ex. file(sr) return sr, file(len)
> return
> len, ...
>
> -4 are all opcodes really necessary ? For example, to play an audio
> file
> there are many opcodes, are they all necessary ? It seems that
> diskin not
> work so well (sometimes), and there is diskin2. Why don't replace
> diskin
> with diskin2 without changing name?
>
> -5 Not a news, but some examples needs some work. And i think that all
> opcodes must have almost one example, better at least two, one very
> basic,
> and one more like music (for examples, fof and partikkel have really
> good
> testing csd). Random family opcodes must display both result with
> different
> seeds (i.e. like examples are now, every time are running display same
> result, but if seed is 0 every time a different series of value).
>
> -6 With regards at Gui, i think qutecsound (that i don't use yet) is
> perfect. But a simple editor like scite, for who, like me (maybe
> only other
> five people...), would work with python too in a simple way (at
> least at
> begin), integrated in distribution and with all right settings, is it
> possible ?
>
> -7 I see that csounds.com is not so frequented, but it is first
> reference
> for beginners. Sometimes there are just few people (last month only
> one!)
> that reply to help request. And also it is not so clear that there
> is this
> list.
>
> -8 "i'm just a poor (seasoned) boy". Now, i think that it's
> necessary a new
> Csound book, updated. At one time it will be foundamental for more
> in deep
> study, and it's the only possibilities that some people, like me,
> have to
> sustain You materially (yes only a microscopic drop, but better many
> little
> than nothing).
>
> -9 i've found some really interesting and beautiful music made with
> csound,
> and, when possible, i've buyed some of those, but it was a long
> research.
> Is it possible to have a page on csounds.com with links to music
> (free and
> not free) ? Also, i've read somewhere that csound is been used by many
> people in many different way/applications. Who, where, for what ? It
> will be
> interesting to known! And, but this is really a personal wish, with
> music it
> will be wonderful to have csd files too, also when published in
> commercial
> cd.
> (Many links to people, in csounds.com, are broken/outdate).
>
> Hope not so much boring,
>
> always thanks for Your work,
> ciao,
>
> fran.
>
>
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