Newbie questions ;-)
| Date | 1999-10-12 00:05 |
| From | Fritz Hildebrandt |
| Subject | Newbie questions ;-) |
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Hi,
I'm absolutely new to Csound. I'm very interested
in it because what I heard from it is very promising to me.
I use Cubase VST for Midi work and I'm also
intersted in live playing with Csound.
There are several frontends and versions of Csound
available (for Win95), which one should I use?
Which manuals and/or tutorials should I read to get
into Csound as fast as possible?
Last question: Is Csound free for commercial use
also? What do I have to do?
Thanx a lot in advance.
Best wishes, Fritz
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| Date | 1999-10-12 01:16 |
| From | Michael Gogins |
| Subject | RE: Newbie questions ;-) |
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I
can't answer all your questions. I myself have a version of Csound called
AXCsound that is available on http://www.pipeline.com/"~gogins. Csound
source code and executable programs are freely available for educational and
research purposes, meaning you can adapt the code yourself for those purposes. I
am reasonably certain that you can make music using Csound and sell the music or
do whatever you like with it. You can't set yourself up to sell Csound source
code or executable programs, that's all, or take the code and turn it into
something to sell.
The
version of Csound you should use should be DirectCsound from Gabriel Maldonado,
if you need realtime sound output (I use Gabriel's code in AXCsound), or you
need to play Csound with a MIDI controller; otherwise you should probably use
the canonical consound program from John ffitch because this is the "standard"
csound insofar as there is one. All of this applies to Windows. There are other
versions I know little of for Linux, BeOS, NeXTStep, various Unices, and the
Macintosh.
The
best tutorial is to get ahold of a lot of Csound orchestras and scores from the
Web and realize them and listen to them, then take the ones you like and try to
make them do something slightly different. Csound is an incredibly deep
instrument and takes time to learn. It's without doubt one of the most important
musical instruments of the present time.
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