Introduction to Csound for the Macintosh
This document describes the Macintosh verson of the Csound program and assumes the reader is already familiar with the Csound program as described in the Csound Users Manual. Csound is primarily intended for the UNIX operating system and hence its operation is specified through command line arguments. The Macintosh version of Csound surrounds this mechanism with the standard Macintosh user interface primitives, e.g. menus and dialog boxes. After the user specifies the Csound input files and options using the Macintosh user interface, Macintosh Csound creates the UNIX command line and invokes Csound appropriately. All subsequent Csound output is directed to a console window (or optionally to a listing file). Output sound files are created in Digidesign's Sound Designer II format or optionally in AIFF format.
Prepared from the
MIT Media Lab Csound Manual,
PJN, Nov 1994.