Amsterdam tutorials

Date	1997-09-14 22:03
From	Stuart Dudley Dimond III
Subject	Amsterdam tutorials
	I've been working my way through the Amsterdam tutorials this week. Breaking in my new PowerCenter 240 and getting used to csound.ppc. I have been able to get them all to work except one: 20_20_6 double-carrier FM, dynamic spectral evolution. It compiles down to the section labeled: vibrato generator. On the statement: kport oscil1 0, iportdev, .2, ifport. It gives me an error and gives a message: too many input args. Reading the fine manual shows me nothing I can detect as an error. Any help would be appreciated. Stuart Received: from stork.maths.bath.ac.uk by omphalos.maths.Bath.AC.UK id aa01264; 15 Sep 97 10:33 BST Received: from pat.bath.ac.uk by stork.maths.Bath.AC.UK id aa13889; 15 Sep 97 10:32 BST Received: (qmail 8442 invoked from network); 15 Sep 1997 09:32:13 -0000 Received: from hermes.ex.ac.uk (144.173.6.14) by pat.bath.ac.uk with SMTP; 15 Sep 1997 09:32:13 -0000 Received: from noether [144.173.8.10] by hermes via SMTP (KAA14834); Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:24:51 +0100 Received: from hermes.ex.ac.uk by maths.exeter.ac.uk; Mon, 15 Sep 97 10:24:40 +0100 Received: from mb05.swip.net [193.12.122.209] by hermes via ESMTP (KAA22688); Mon, 15 Sep 1997 10:24:33 +0100 Received: from rasmus (dialup97-1-8.swipnet.se [130.244.97.8]) by mb05.swip.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id LAA10341 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:25:10 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <341CFF8D.5B3F@hexagon.se> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 11:27:41 +0200 From: rasmus ekman X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk Subject: Name collision in 3.46 / Amsterdam tutorials References: <341C5129.25B4@io.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Stuart Dudley Dimond III wrote: > > I've been working my way through the Amsterdam tutorials this week. > Breaking in my new PowerCenter 240 and getting used to csound.ppc. I > have been able to get them all to work except one: 20_20_6 > > On the statement: kport oscil1 0, iportdev, .2, ifport. > > It gives me an error and gives a message: too many input args. > Reading the fine manual shows me nothing I can detect as an error. This is due to a name collision. The opcode kport was introduced in Bath version 3.46, and Csound obviously gets confused. I can run the example on my PC by editing the name of this variable: (acccid/20/20_20_06.ORC, lines 62-63): ;********* ; ERROR v 3.46 kport oscil1 0,iportdev,.2,ifport ; initial portamento ; ERROR v 3.46 kv = 1+kvib+kport+krand ; vibrato factor ca. 1 kerrfix oscil1 0,iportdev,.2,ifport ; initial portamento kv = 1+kvib + kerrfix + krand ; vibrato factor ca. 1 ;********* This seems bound to happen sometimes when introducing opcodes, if they begin with 'i', 'k' or 'a'. Same problem reappears if you eg. rename the variable kport to kpow. A problem here though, since ACCCI is counted among official Csound sources. Should someone grep it and pass johnff a "used names" list, or else how to handle? Think, Conan, think! regards, re

Date	1997-09-15 16:40
From	Mike Berry
Subject	Re: Amsterdam tutorials
	Look closely through the orc for a comment that is not properly commented (missing ;). This is the most common cause of this error message. Mike Berry mikeb@mills.edu Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:34:29 -0700 From: "Jim Stevenson Ph.D" Message-Id: <199709152334.QAA09464@eos.arc.nasa.gov> To: mikeb@mills.edu, sdimond@io.com Subject: Re: Amsterdam tutorials Cc: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk Sender: owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Where can I ftp these tutorials? Thanks. Message-Id: <341D98A0.3A90@io.com> Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:20:49 +0000 From: Stuart Dudley Dimond III Reply-To: sdimond@io.com Organization: Metatron Mime-Version: 1.0 To: csound@maths.ex.ac.uk Subject: Amsterdam tutorials Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-csound-outgoing@maths.ex.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Thanks to all for the help! The problem was indeed a collision in name-space. Changing the two occurances of kport to kporta got instant results. For those asking the location of the Amsterdam tutorials, try: http://mars.let.uva.nl/gather/accci/index.html or ftp://mars.let.uva.nl/pub/accci Stuart

Date	1997-09-27 06:44
From	santiago pereson
Subject	Re: Amsterdam tutorials
	At 21:03 +0000 14/9/97, Stuart Dudley Dimond III wrote: >I've been working my way through the Amsterdam tutorials this week. >Breaking in my new PowerCenter 240 and getting used to csound.ppc. I >have been able to get them all to work except one: 20_20_6 >double-carrier FM, dynamic spectral evolution. It compiles down to the >section labeled: vibrato generator. > > On the statement: kport oscil1 0, iportdev, .2, ifport. > > It gives me an error and gives a message: too many input args. Reading >the fine manual shows me nothing I can detect as an error. Any help >would be appreciated. > > Stuart don't really know if it may be the source of your error, but the last version of csound.ppc is called 'Csound' (alone, without the '.ppc' thing) and it works much better than the previous one. i think there's a link to it from the Csound front page at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Man/c_front.html (don't remember where i got it from). best, santiago music is dressed silence mailto:jaco@overnet.com.ar http://www.geocities.com/~yaco