It's been a while since I last posted. I learned a new programming language (Haskell). Today I completed my first Haskell project, an arpeggiator for Csound score files. It does more than just arpeggios -- it calculates any number of arbitrary parameters and outputs them to the score.

Objective

As you may have inferred from my path so far, I'm learning each opcode one by one. I read the documentation, set up a test system, and then try different variations to see if I can generate a sound that I like. Today I'm working with hsboscil.

I'm almost back to Csounding.

I got distracted this week. For various reasons, mostly related to hardware, I've been having a lot of audio problems. I finally got sick of it and decided to start over, with a clean slate, in a new Linux distro, using the sensible and varied packages at Planet CCRMA.

Objective

To explore using convolution to create new sounds.

Strategy

There are six convolution opcodes in csound; I'm going to test each one out. My idea here is to convolve with 1.) something normal, 2.) something interesting, and 3.) something bizarre. I'm starting with convolve, which, according to the documentation, entered the opcode world in 1996.

Objective

To create a richly textured, bell- or chime-like sound using additive synthesis.

Strategy

The opcode I chose for this experiment was adsynt.

Objective

To create a (stereo) synthesized pad similar to a flute -- yet strange -- using granular synthesis.

Strategy

Again I'm using diskgrain for the synthesis, this time with a new idea: to create a stereo pad by slight variation of the grain size of the right and left channels. This should smooth out the 'bumps' and create an interesting stereo texture.

Objective

To develop a prototype strategy for (highly flexible) sound morphing using granular synthesis.

Strategy

My first attempt makes use of diskgrain. Ideally, there is a smoother way to transition between the sounds than I have chosen here (probably by altering the density of the grains). However, I spent most of the evening learning to make the opcode work and how to set the parameters properly.

Greetings, everyone. I've been away from Csound for a while.

I'd like to say I'm returning; but to return, I'd have to be back where I started.

Impossible.

Here's what happened.

I've been working with realtime Csound as a side project for a while, now. I decided to write up a short list of some of the tips and tricks I've discovered.

J. Knapka has been hard at work developing abcsound. I have actually taken it for more than one test drive. However, today, I completed a small scale compositional project using it. Not bad for an alpha stage module!