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MIT Media Lab Csound Manual.

CONTENTS

Title Page and Copyright of this HTML version from the Leeds Csound Front Page.

0. PREFACE by Barry Vercoe

1. A BEGINNING TUTORIAL

2. SYNTAX OF THE ORCHESTRA

STATEMENT TYPES
CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES
VALUE CONVERTERS: int, frac, abs, ftlen, i, exp, log, sqrt, sin, cos, dbamp, ampdb
PITCH CONVERTERS: octpch, pchoct, cpspch, octcps, cpsoct pch, oct, cps
ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS
CONDITIONAL VALUES
EXPRESSIONS
DIRECTORIES and FILES , SFDIR, SSDIR, SADIR
NOMENCLATURE opcodes, arguments, result mnemonics
ASSIGNMENT STATEMENTS: =, init, tival, divz
ORCHESTRA HEADER: sr, kr, ksmps, nchnls
INSTRUMENT BLOCKS: instr, endin
PROGRAM CONTROL: goto, tigoto, if ... goto, timout, reinit, rigoto, rireturn
DURATIONAL CONTROL: ihold, turnoff
MIDI CONVERTERS: notnum, veloc, cpsmidi(b), octmidi(b), pchmidi(b), ampmidi, aftouch, chpress, pchbend, midictrl
SIGNAL GENERATORS: line, expon, linseg, expseg, phasor table, table, tablei, oscil1, oscil1i, oscil, oscili, foscil, foscili, loscil, buzz, gbuzz, adsyn, pvocf, fof, pluck, rand, randh, randi
SIGNAL MODIFIERS: linen, linenr, envlpx, port, tone, atone, reson, areson, lpread, lpreson, lpfreson, rms, gain, balance, downsamp, upsamp, interp, integ, diff, samphold, delayr, delayw, delay, delay1, deltap, deltapi comb, alpass, reverb
OPERATIONS WITH SPECTRAL DATA TYPES: octdown, noctdft, specaddm, specdiff, specscal, spechist, specfilt, specaccm, specptrk, specsum, specdisp
SENSING & CONTROL: tempest, xyin, tempo
SOUNDFILE INPUT & OUTPUT: in, ins, insq, soundin, out, outs, outq, pan
SIGNAL DISPLAY: print, display, dispfft

3. STANDARD NUMERIC SCORE

4. GEN ROUTINES

5. SCOT: A Score Translator

6. The Unix CSOUND Command

Appendix 1. The Soundfile Utility Programs

intro directories, paths, and soundfile formats
sndinfo - get basic information about a soundfile
hetro - hetrodyne filter analysis for adsyn
lpanal - lpc analysis for the lp generators
pvanal - fourier analysis for pvoc (Dan Ellis)

Appendix 2. CSCORE: A C-language Score Generator

Appendix 3. An Instrument Design Tutorial (R.C. Boulanger)

Appendix 4. An FOF Synthesis Tutorial (J.M. Clarke)

Appendix 5. Csound for the Macintosh (W. Gardner)

Appendix 6. Adding your own Cmodules to Csound

Appendix 7. A CSOUND QUICK REFERENCE

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Prepared from the MIT Media Lab Csound Manual, PJN, Nov 1994.