Full Description
This rigorous book is a complete and up-to-date reference for the Csound system from the perspective of its main developers and power users. It explains the system, including the basic modes of operation and its programming language; it explores the many ways users can interact with the system, including the latest features; and it describes key applications such as instrument design, signal processing, and creative electronic music composition.
The Csound system has been adopted by many educational institutions as part of their undergraduate and graduate teaching programs, and it is used by practitioners worldwide. This book is suitable for students, lecturers, composers, sound designers, programmers, and researchers in the areas of music, sound, and audio signal processing.
Contents
Music Programming Languages.- An Introduction to the Csound System.- Key Concepts, Abstractions: Instruments, Events.- Variables, Signals, Opcodes.- Advanced Data Types: Strings and Arrays.- Control of Flow and Scheduling.- Creating Signal Graphs and Busses.- User-Defined Opcodes.- The Numeric Score.- MIDI Input and Output.- Open Sound Control and Networking.- Scripting Control I: Python.- Scripting Control II: Clojure.- Classic Synthesis.- Time-Domain Processing.- Spectral Processing.- Granular Techniques.- Physical Models.- Composition Case Studies.
