What is Jcsound?
Jcsound is a thin wrapper for csound 4 that makes it a jack client and
alsa-sequencer client. Use rosegarden to trigger csound instruments and record them in ardour!

Gerard comments, "It is build fix release. I found out that configure didn't work with csound-gbs I fixed the autotool stuff so that (if all works well) compiling jcsound is again as easy as ./configure && make and make install.

You need csound-gbs-4.23 for this to work. But anybody on linux should try this out.

And yes, I am thinking of moving the whole thing to csound5, but I do not have the time at the moment to contribute much in the way of coding for that, so I am waiting for it to reach beta stage.

and merry Xmas and best wishes for 2005"

Gerard

The Kevin Conder manual has been folded into csound.pdf -- this is a first release with plenty of LaTeX errors. An HTML manual will be produced in the near future.

The PortAudio driver has been restored to the most functional version.

John ffitch has fixed some rounding errors in delay lines (delset, delrset, deltap).

Parser
Some internal reworking but this is not integrated and is not progressing as it should

Sound file library
Apart from dnoise this is believed to be completed

Completion of Portaudio v19
Runs acceptably on Linux. OSX causes problems as the blocking code for PA is missing. A callback mechanism has been written. Still some problems. On Windows there are no problems with ASIO, and the latency is excellent, comparable to Linux. There remains a problem with breaking out of an ASIO performance, often causing the computer to hang. There is no problem if the performance finishes normally.

Software bus
The code is written. Perhaps the names need to be revised, and there is currently no API code using it. There are alternative ideas so the current implementation cannot be taken as settled.

Check mac build
Not sure of Mac status; there are conflicting reports. It builds for me but I have not stressed it at all

Check Windows build
The scons build on Windows appears to be be in pretty good shape, except the NSIS installer target suggested by Steven Yi has not yet been implemented. Also, CsoundVST built with useDouble=1 used to function in Cubase SX and now does not (must be built with float samples to work), although useDouble=1 works in all other contexts.

Reorganisation of opcodes
The move to a plugin-based architecture is essentially complete. This could be revisited, but this is low priority.

Separation of API
Largely complete. Still in minor development

MIDI
A first attempt at deploying portMIDI has been made, but the whole MIDI area is not substantially changed. This needs to be improved before we can release.

Making re-entrant
Slow progress; needs some higher priority given to it. There are some positive suggestions on a mechanism.

Loris opcodes
Loris opcodes are functional with CsoundVST. Michael has ported them to Csound5. Steven Yi has suggestions for improving the Loris target for non-CsoundVST builds.

Python opcodes

The Python opcodes are functional, and Oeyvind Brandtsegg is playing with these opcodes and providing feedback on them.

Documentation

Micael has begun working on folding the new documentation on Csound5 found in csound.pdf into the Kevin Conder documentation system. When this is done the documentation target from scons will be removed (or changed...). There will still be a csound.pdf, but it will produced by DocBook and contain all Csound documentation in one place, including the Conder manual, up to date installation and build instructions, new features, extending Csound with plugin opcodes, and documentation of the API.

SConstruct changes
File to be reorganized to have build targets as well as to handle collecting data for installers. install-opcodes, install-executables, and install targets already integrated.

Installers
Not much progress here, mostly dependent on SConstruct changes

Differences from canonical Mills Csound:

[+] Csound front end with some new dialogs and the ability to easily select between multiple Perf engines.

[+] Perf 4.23f12 with enhanced features including the use of Cscore plugins (cscore programs loaded from shared libraries).

[+] New Perf64 application that uses 64-bit double-precision floating-point
numbers for internal calculations.

[+] Standalone versions of many utilities from Unix-based Csound:

--> Score Sort (scsort)
--> Score Extract
--> Scot (Score translation language)
--> Envelope Extract (envext)
--> Scale Soundfile (scale)
--> SndInfo
--> Hetro Export
--> Hetro Import
--> LPC Export
--> LPC Import
--> PV Export
--> PV Import

[+] Three example Cscore plugins: Double Durations, Quad Stretch, and Parallel Fifths.

Csound version 4.23f12gbs.5 has been released in the csoundgbs package of the Csound SourceForge project. This release corresponds to John ffitch's 4.23f12 release. It contains the fifth minor revision of the original GNU Build System 4.23f12 release. See the ChangeLog for more details.

The GBS version of Csound is designed to provide an easily installed, platform independent version of Csound capable of supporting Windows and a variety of Unix-like platforms, including Linux and Mac OSX. (Windows is supported using MinGW/MSYS, but Cygwin will also work.)

The Csound source distribution will produce an FLTK enabled build if FLTK is installed, and its configuration script is available to the build. You configure Csound to build a shared library or a DLL, as it will build only static libraries by default. See the README for details.

The Csound RPM was compiled with FLTK enabled.

The flCsound Windows installer contains Csound with a simple GUI. This is the easiest way to install Csound on Windows.

Bug Fixes:
With this release, an orchestra reading bug is fixed, and the flCsound transcript window supports copy and select all operations. Also, it is working on OS X as well as the previous release and is now reading MacOS 9 and DOS line endings just fine.

This is an update of the Mills College version of Csound developed by Matt Ingalls, Dave Madole, and Mike Berry. It includes Perf 4.23f12, fully updated with the latest canonical code including all bug fixes as of Aug. 18th that are in CVS. This release also includes Csound 1.5.4, a new version of the Mac graphical front-end which includes numerous bug fixes and feature updates that allow it to take advantage of recent changes in canonical Csound.

Full release notes can be found by clicking on the release name at Sourceforge or in the "What's New" file that is part of the distribution. Executable applications and documentation are in the "MillsCsound4.23f12.smi.bin" file release. Full source code is available in the "MillsCsound4.23f12src.smi.bin" file.

Features:
[+] Csound now supports opcode plug-ins on MacOS. The distribution includes two sample plug-in libraries which add the opcodes pans, metro, splitrig, and timedseq.
[+] Fixed a problem that could cause Perf 4.23 to run up to 70x slower.
[+] New "Additional Options" window in the front end for adding any Csound options not covered by the GUI.
[+] The first official Mac release with the new GNU Lesser General Public License. Enjoy your freedom to copy, modify, and distribute Csound, including the source code!
[+] OMS real-time Midi support has been removed in this release due to possible license incompatibilities with the LGPL. I am very sorry to have to do this. Reading Midi files as scores still works. I hope to add support for the open source MidiShare library in the future.
[+] New and updated documentation with several example orchestras and scores (kindly borrowed with the permission of Matt Ingalls and Dr. Richard Boulanger).
[+] Over 35 bug fixes to the front end and the many, many fixes to the canonical code since version 4.23.

Changes in this Release:
[+] The portaudio.dll file is now named portaudio.dll instead of
portaudio.dll.0.0.19. It is built with Dev-C++/MinGW instead of autotools and contains ASIO drivers, DirectSound (DirectX) drivers, and Windows Multimedia Extensions (WMME) drivers.
[+] Top/main.c and InOut/pa_blocking.c contain minor changes in an effort to improve the ability to cancel a performance with real-time audio using Control-C (console Csound only).

Csound version 4.23f12gbs.3 has been released in the csoundgbs package of the csound project on SourceForge. The Linux RPM was built with FLTK support enabled. You do not have to have FLTK installed on your system to use this RPM.

(non-)Features:

[+] Csound only
[+] No utilities, No FLTK, No X11 graphics, No installer
[+] Real-time audio enabled with CoreAudio
[+] Compiled on 10.2.8. (Should work on any 10.2 or 10.3)

How to install:

[+] Decompress the archive with Stuffit Expander
[+] Open a terminal and navigate to the folder created by expanding.
[+] Type: sudo chown root:wheel csound
[+] Type: sudo cp csound /usr/bin/csound
[+] Note: if you don't want to replace an existing csound,
[-] Type: sudo cp csound /usr/bin/csound2 (or whatever you want to call it)

EventGUI is a JAVA-based GUI Framework for controlling Csound instruments during performance

FastGUI is an SDL::Perl-based Gui Framework for controlling Csound instruments during a performance. FastGUI is effectively a widget set designed for realtime performance purposes.

SY.MU.S. is a program that include two principal features: the generation of Csound music scores, and a Csound GUI interface. At the base of the generative functions, there is a systrem of logic rules implemented into the source code of the program. This system has been derived from musical composition experience, it is not therefore, an abstract formalization, but the transfer of a whole set of musical composition rules and procedures, into a computer's program. This whole set of rules and procedures have been elaborated with the goal to obtain raw musical material during the layout of a work.

Parser
Little or no progress. I have improved lexer and it is now compatible with loadable opcodes.

Sound file library
This is mainly done. Some of the utilities (in particular dnoise) have not been converted yet

Completion of Portaudio v19
There have been major improvements here. On Linux we have a working system with some concerns about performance. On Windows Portaudio suffers from high latency, and at present the ASIO variant is not functional. The mac is even more problematic as the pa_v19 port to OSX is far from done.

Software bus
Designs have been floating about but I do not get a clear feeling on consensus. The proposals have been mainly easy to code, so it is a policy issue

Check Mac build
Thanks to steven and others there is progress here. It is up to them to report. No progress of integrating a Mac-like user interface onto the API (I think) but a simple command-line build works in delayed time.

Check Windows build
I think Michael has sthis under control now; I do not have the space to build on Windows now.

Reorganisation of opcodes
This needs review. The code works, but I am not totally happy with the specification method for loading. There is a suggestion that there should be a specified core, and the rest should be loadavle but there is no progress here

Separation of API
I think this is progressing welll there are uncertainties about division into external/internal parts which needs more thought.

MIDI
Little or no progress has been made with PortMIDI; some older MIDI code is still working

Making re-entrant
Progress but needs a further push; there may be significant things to do here.

Simple Build for Linux
Awaits software bus in part

these:

f1 0 128 7 0 128 0 ; initpos
f2 0 128 -7 1 128 1 ; masses
f4 0 128 -7 0 128 2 ; centering force
f5 0 128 -7 1 128 1 ; damping
f6 0 128 -7 -.0 128 0 ; init velocity
f7 0 128 -7 0 128 128 ; trajectory

become:

gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, 7, 0, 128, 0 ; initpos
gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, -7, 1, 128, 1 ; masses
gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, -7, 0, 128, 2 ; centering force
gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, -7, 1, 128, 1 ; damping
gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, -7, -.0, 128, 0 ; init velocity
gi_ ftgen 0, 0, 128, -7, 0, 128, 128 ; trajectory

Allegory is an open-source software library using software
library using Haskell, a lazy functional programming language, to assemble networks of sound transformations expressed in Csound.