Hacks and cruft: SciTE, Csedit, csound5gui…

SciTE (Scintilla Text Editor) is nice for looking at and writing clean Csound code. It does opcode and comment highlighting and has good basic editing features. You can customize it with a properties file. It has a neat “Go” feature that lets you actually run a program and see the output in another window. BUT [...]

“The Csound Book” and the CD-ROMs that come with it: both unusable and indispensible

The Csound Book http://www.amazon.com/Csound-Book-Perspectives-Processing-Programming/dp/0262522616/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215706387&sr=8-1 (which you can still get, and for less than $55, if you look around a bit) is not at all a good introduction to Csound and certainly not a reference manual. It’s sort of sad in a way; the book obviously represents a gigantic effort to put it together and yet was almost completely [...]

Cscore? Don’t waste your time

At first this sounded interesting: an API and subset of C that would allow you to write programs to generate Csound scores. There’s even a big chapter of it in the “CD-ROM Chapters” version of the Csound book.
As mentioned elsewhere, this is a desirable function since to laboriously write a score line by line is [...]

Ahh, crap: fizzly noise from my audio card

I guess I never listened that carefully to my new music production PC. This is the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 + ASUS P5E based system I had built to be as silent as possible.
Well, as I mentioned in previous posts, it is delightfully quiet in the room. It’s barely a whisper and essentially inaudible [...]

SciTE for running Csound and a couple other notes

I actually have something positive to write today instead of complaining all the time.
Even though it takes a little doing, the SciTE (Scintilla Text Editor) tool has been a very useful way for me to experiment with Csound compositions. However, it only works right on “.csd” files. So here’s what I’ve been doing to audition [...]

This is promising for beginners…

I went to a link on the Csounds.com page (documentation) which led me to the “One Laptop Per Child” site. Apparently Csound (since it is open source) is one of the available assets in that project. The best part about this is that they have started some elementary documentation in wiki form.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Csound
And another page which [...]

More newbie grumbling, grousing, complaining and kvetching

I’m not going to put this on the Csound forum; I would feel guilty about wasting the time of the users there who are already far beyond my knowledge.
So, poking around in the C:\Program Files\Csound\examples directory, you see a lot of files with the .py/.pyc/.pyd extension. This turns out to mean they are Python files.
OK, [...]