The Kind of Thing You’re Going to Run Into as a Csound beginner…

The learning curve for Csound can sometimes seem insurmountable. Here’s just a few examples, and why you should always use your search function and exercise extreme patience.
1. As I mention elsewhere, even though there is a forum section at csounds.com, all the important discussion about csound is at nabble.com (http://www.nabble.com/Csound-f480.html) But you can be reading [...]

Quick ChucK

To follow up on the above mention of the “ChucK” music programming system: here are some notes on how to get it running on your Windows XP system.
But first, a couple prerequisites.
You need to be comfortable using the Windows “Command Prompt”. There are some tricks to entering data in there, which you should learn (for [...]

Many gigabytes of free samples and loops courtesy of the OLPC project

If you don’t know about OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) you ought to check it out.
From their mission statment: “Any nation’s most precious natural resource is its children. We believe the emerging world must leverage this resource by tapping into the children’s innate capacities to learn, share, and create on their own. Our answer to [...]