I misspelled the creator of the Fractal Tune Smithy program. The correct
spelling is ... Robert Walker.

Hi Dave Phillips, and all list members

Dave said.....

>Voila, you have a 3-second sine wave playing at 400 Hz. Clear as mud, as
we say here in NW Ohio. ;-)

"Clear as mud". well now........ isn't that the truth! I never heard that
phrase before. I got a chuckle out of that one!


Thanks so much for helping me with getting started in csound. In combination
with John ffitch's tutorial at http://www.csounds.com/toots/Toot01.html and
your help I actually created the frequency of 440 Hz and "heard it".

Just a quick background before I ask a few questions.

I've toyed with csound back in 2002 with the help of Dan Gutwein
http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/Daniel_Gutwein.htm.

Dan was excellent and taught me some basics but unfortunately I never wrote
down any of his teachings. As time passed I forgot what I learned. I lost
contact with him as he is no longer teaching at The College of William and
Mary http://www.wm.edu/

I've also tinkered with programming in "C" with the excellent help of Robert
Walker who is the creator of "Fractal Tune Smithy"
http://www.tunesmithy.connectfree.co.uk/
thus I'm not a total stranger to this medium of expression. Just been away
from it too long.

I've been playing guitar since 1973 and absolutely enjoy studying music
theory and tuning theory.

I have learned alittle HTML and have created a humble web site that I offer
to anyone who wants to learn to play slide guitar via "The Allman Brothers"
style. Free!  These samples are my version of how Dickey Betts and Duane
Allman of "The Allman Brothers Band" played their slide and lead guitar
parts. Its still under construction (when I have time).
http://www.geocities.com/electricwally77/


However, in reference to csound, whatever I learn I'm writing it down so I
won't forget.

Questions please........

I have winsound interface opened and I created all the necessary sub-files
inside my csound directory (folder).

Although I've seen various links which recommend different folder names,

http://hem.passagen.se/rasmuse/PCinstal.htm

 in time I will understand what files are really needed but for now, this is
what I was told to create.

My sub-files are labeled as follows:

1) Analysis
2) Bin
3) Sounds
4) Samples
5) Csound manual
6) Orc & Sco (should these be seperate files/folders ?)
7) Rendered
8) Winsound

Looking at the winsound interface I have the word "test" sitting in the
output file box. Why I don't know.

My output device box reads: M-Audio Delta AP192 1/2 (which of course is my
sound card).

Under Format, "WAV" is selected. I guess this is what I want. To create a
.wav file correct?

Under "Size" 16 bit is the default.

under "Graphics", "Full" is the default.

"Peak Chunks is selected by default.

And everything else is not selected. Is this default set-up listed above
okay to begin learning csound?

If so then my next question please is.....

I use a basic windows editor called "notepad" to create my score and
orchestra files.

I pasted the selected values from John's ffitch's web site
http://www.csounds.com/toots/Toot01.html   into my text editor called
"notepad" (Notepad comes with Windows). I used John's tutorial because its
winsound am I'm using a windows operating system.

For the .orc file, I copied and pasted the following code.....

 instr 1

a1 oscil 10000, 440, 1

out a1

endin

For the .sco file, I copied and pasted the following code.....

f1	0	4096	10	1	; use GEN10 to compute a sine wave

;ins	strt	dur

i1	0	4

e					; indicates the end of the score I saved these files as Toot01.orc and
Toot01.sco  ----  When I went to File-Save As (in Notepad), the "Save As"
dialog box popped up and Notepad wanted to save the file as a .txt extension
by default. In the "save as type" box, I clicked the down arrow and chose
"All files" (instead of the default called "text documents .txt") which
allowed me to save the files I created as a .orc file or .sco file. If I
want to edit this Toor01.orc file in the future, I have to change the "Files
of type" from "Text Documents .txt to "All files" in order for the
Toot01.orc to load into my text editor called "Notepad". Also in the "Save
As" dialog box, there is a drop down box next to encoding. "ANSI" is
selected by default so I simply left this as is. Sorry to be explaining such
a basic procedure but I'm not sure if Linux users have the same interface as
windows.

I loaded both the .orc and .sco files into their respected places in
winsound and clicked "Render". I assumed "Render" was the equivalent of what
the tutorial said, "Run this with its corresponding score file, toot1.sco :
So I guessed that "Render" equals "Run". I checked my desktop for the
resulting product called test.wav file and found nothing. I then searched
the csound directory and there I found it. Apparently the .wav file was
placed there automatically. I opened my windows media player and opened the
test.wav file and it played the 440Hz frequency. it was kinda like that
magic moment when Edison created the first lightbulb or Alexander Bell with
the telephone. Real interesting.

That's what I did and winsound created the .wav file of 440Hz. If I did
anything wrong or need to make corrections, please let me know.

I'm very happy that I now remember the most fundamental basics of Csound and
how to create, save, load and render files.

Where do I go from here without getting lost?

Thanks so much
Walter Lepore
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Phillips" 
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Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 9:56 AM
Subject: [Csnd] simple Csound, was Re: [Csnd] [OT] Linux references at
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> Wally Lepore wrote:
>
> >... I do absolutely take that into consideration as I search for a
> >user friendly tutorial. I understand alittle but as far as trying to
create
> >the sound of a basic 440 Hz pitch...forget it. I'ts still a blur to me. I
> >keep reading over and over again hoping I'll pick something up I missed
> >earlier.
> >
> >
> In classic Csound you would create two files, an orc and a sco file,
> something like the following:
>
> ;;; whatsyoursine.orc
>
> instr 1
> asig oscil 10000, 440, 1
> out asig
> endin
>
> ;;; whatsyoursine.sco
>
> f1 0 8192 10 1   ; this is a stored function table that holds what is
> called a single-cycle sine wave
> i1 0 3                 ; this line plays your 440 sine wave for 3
> seconds, starting at time 0
> e
>
> The relevant instrument design translates to:
>
>   "Create an audio signal (asig) by using an oscillator opcode (oscil)
> with an absolute value of 10000 for its amplitude (a fairly loud
> volume), a frequency of 440 Hz, and using a stored function table
> represented by f1 (the 1 at the end of the opcode declaration) in my sco
> file."
>
> Process at a command prompt (in Linux) with something like:
>
>     csound -o mysine.wav whatsyoursine.*
>
> Voila, you have a 3-second sine wave playing at 400 Hz. Clear as mud, as
> we say here in NW Ohio. ;-)
>
> >If there was ever a term to describe learning csound, to me.... it would
> >certainly be called "rocket science". And rocket science is cool stuff
> >indeed!
> >
> >
> I got into Csound when  it was a lot less involved than it is now. Maybe
> it was easier to learn then, but as the folks who know me will agree,
> I'm no rocket scientist or computer whiz. I'm a career musician who
> figured that if I could learn how to play and write music then I could
> certainly learn how to use Csound. And with a lot of help from the true
> gurus on this list, I've learned at least a little bit of it.
>
> I highly recommend the book "Virtual Sound" for Csound beginners, moving
> on to the most excellent Csound Book by Dr. B when you feel ready for
> the next step. Of course, this way of doing things is merely my way,
> others will suggest other approaches that may work better for you. I
> don't use Windows at all and can offer no useful advice wrt Csound on
> that platform, sorry.
>
> Best,
>
> dp
>
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