On Windows, CsoundVST can serve as a GUI front end for Csound. When I say "command line," I mean that one types into the settings window the command line that one would use with the non-GUI form of Csound. There are no dialogs for setting sample rate, channel count, etc. However, you can edit the orc and sco file in CsoundVST, stop and restart the performance, do Python scripting, etc., so I feel that CsoundVST does offer advantages to the command-line version of Csound.

CsoundVST will also build and run on Linux, but it is not at this time a part of the standard distribution.

Regards,
Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Lamb 
>Sent: Feb 3, 2006 12:33 AM
>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>Subject: Re: [Csnd] Csound 5 Woes for Csound 5 Newbie
>
>Hi Michael and Phil,
>
>I tried it both ways and came up with the same error message.
>
>Do you mean to tell me that there is no interface with Csound5 except 
>command lines? That there is not a front end to it as Csound 4.23? I thought 
>there was some sort of gui for csound 5 especially since it is an exe. file, 
>Also I thought that is what the python 2.4 is for. That is how it works for 
>the Windows version of Supercollider.
>
>Could it be that I am just missing some dll. files that I need to download 
>elsewhere?
>
>Another question would be what if I run Csound5 from a linux interface 
>instead of Windows? Is there a frontend or a gui then?
>
>Still confused,
>
>Bruce
>
>
>>From: Phil 
>>Reply-To: phil@urbanoia.net
>>To: csound@lists.bath.ac.uk
>>Subject: Re: [Csnd] Csound 5 Woes for Csound 5 Newbie
>>Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:39:04 +1000
>>
>>Hi Bruce,
>>
>>I run CSound from a command prompt window - Click Start, then select
>>run. Type in 'cmd' (without quotes). change to the directory which
>>contains your CSound files (.csd or .orc and .sco) and run csound with
>>something like:
>>
>>c:\src\test\> csound -b128 -B512 -odac4 piece.csd
>>
>>If you use the .csd file format, you can include the options in the
>> section, making it a bit easier to run. typing just
>>'csound' at the prompt will give some info as to what the options do.
>>
>>Hope that helps,
>>Phil
>>
>>
>>On 03/02/06, Bruce Lamb  wrote:
>> > Hi, can anyone help out there?
>> >
>> > I downloaded the Windows CSound 5 exe. file from Sourceforge, installed 
>>it,
>> > and when I go to run it off the csound file I get a dos window which 
>>does
>> > something and then disappears with nothing else happening after that. 
>>And if
>> > I click the CsoundVST I get get a long error stating that the dynamic 
>>link
>> > library_CsoundVST could not be in the specified path
>> > C:\ProgramFiles\Csound\bin Etc.. It basically goes stating that all the
>> > C:\WINNT paths could not be found.
>> >
>> > I have Python 2.4 installed and I am running off of Windows 2000.
>> >
>> > As always any help is greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Bruce
>> >
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