Csound users ?

[Fabricius]

Hello,

Are there any CSound user here ? I'm willing to learn to use it and I wanted to see if anyone here has tried it. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here a very short extract from the official site: "Csound is a sound and music computing system". Well, it might be too short. It's a sort of computer langage designed for creating sound, or emulating existing one. Check "CSound live coding" on youtube, it should pop a few videos where you can see what it is (in the context of a live session, which CSound is not primarely targeted at).

Cheers,
Fab

[eLawnMust]

Tracker Forums would probably be more helpful for Csound info... I always wanted to get into it but so many options and old trackers like Arguru's NoiseTrekker 2 already had Csound synth in it as well as 303s which is still present in Protrekkr today! When the Renoise guys got ahold of the open sourced Noisetrekker 2 from Arguru first thing they did was strip out all the Csound stuff.

ModPlug Central probably best source to ask-

https://forum.openmpt.org/index.php

[whyterabbyt]

Tracker Forums would probably be more helpful for Csound info... I always wanted to get into it but so many options and old trackers like Arguru's NoiseTrekker 2 already had Csound synth in it as well as 303s which is still present in Protrekkr today! When the Renoise guys got ahold of the open sourced Noisetrekker 2 from Arguru first thing they did was strip out all the Csound stuff.

ModPlug Central probably best source to ask-

https://forum.openmpt.org/index.php

That wasnt CSound, it was something called CSynth. CSound has nothing to do with Noisetrekker.

https://sonicstate.com/digital/model.cf ... 1&catid=11

CSound comes from the academic experimental music world, its roots are in the Music-N music languages dating back to the late 50s. Its probably 30 years old itself. Its a text-based language, and when Noisetrekker was written CSound wasnt even capable of running in realtime, you had to render offline.

OP might find it useful to look into Cabbage, which can compile Csound into VST plugins and standalones. Puremagnetik are using this for various plugins, they provide source code for some. There's also ModulysCS a version of the Modulys step sequencer which has integrated CSound.

Basic start point will always be Boulanger's TOOTorial and CSound website is definitely your best starting point.

[Fabricius]

Thank you for the link with the TOOTorial on CSound. i did not know about Cabbage, I'm going to have a look. Thanks also to the other poster, I'm glad you mentioned OpenMPT, because I'm also a OpenMPT user. I thought it could be nice to generate sounds that could be used in a tracker. In fact I like the fact that the sounds are purely "parameter-generated". I even tried also AdlibTracker2 that generates FM sounds from the Yamaha OPL-2 chipset. It's very far from a modern DAW but I like it...

[whyterabbyt]

One thing that's nice about Cabbage is that it bundles a huge number of CSound example files to be loaded straight in.

[StudioDave]

I started using Csound in 1989. At first I wrote instruments and scores by using the text interface. Various GUIs have been implemented for it, including Steven Yi's excellent blue, Rory Walsh's Cabbage, Jean Piche's Cecelia, and Jean-Pierre Lesmoine's AVSynthesis. Csound is also supported by IRCAM's OpenMusic.

Learning the basics of Csound is not a difficult task. If you're looking for a starting point you might try these links:

The Online Reference Manual

https://csound.com/docs/manual/index.html

The Web-IDE Project

https://ide.csound.com/documentation

A list of GUIs for Csound

https://csound.com/frontends.html

Search Google and YouTube for links to music made with Csound. You may have to sift the results to get the right stuff, there are other projects that have appropriated the name "Csound".

There are also some fine books about Csound.

I worked with the system intensively for many years. Most recently I've been using its implementation in OpenMusic to realize scores made with the OM tools.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know about it.

Best regards,

Dave Phillips

[Samuel Wood]

Hello,

Are there any CSound user here ? I'm willing to learn to use it and I wanted to see if anyone here has tried it. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here a very short extract from the official site: "Csound is a sound and music computing system". Well, it might be too short. It's a sort of computer langage designed for creating sound, or emulating existing one. Check "CSound live coding" on youtube, it should pop a few videos where you can see what it is (in the context of a live session, which CSound is not primarely targeted at).

Cheers,
Fab

I've been using Csound for 5 years now, and it's an incredible tool for creating music and sound effects. Despite being a programming language, there are resources like the Csound website, forum, and book to help you learn. Once you grasp the basics, the possibilities are endless. I highly recommend Csound for sound creation enthusiasts. Don't hesitate to experiment and seek help from the supportive Csound community. Enjoy exploring!

[razzkazz]

ChatGPT is definitely worth a look for some help and examples. I used Csound briefly in University 10 years ago, and had a look recently at how GPT can help you learn it, pretty amazing.

[lobanov]

Look at this project, may be, it will be useful for you:

Blue

P. S. I've never really used CSound, tried but gave up. I know almost nothing about Blue, if and how it works etc.