With much gratitude from the Csound community, this news:

Via Francois Pinot:

The French translation of the Canonical Csound Reference Manual is complete. I began this work in December 2006, and since then, this work in progress has been distributed with each release of Csound. The next release (5.14) will be the first one with a full French manual.

I will continue to keep the French version of the manual synchronized with the original one. Between two releases, people can view an up to date version of the French manual here:

http://fggp.org/csound/manual-fr/html/

HMTM Hannover (Germany) invites you to the first international Csound Conference.
When Friday Sept 30 - Sunday Oct 2
Where HMTM Hannover (Emmichplatz 1, D-30175 Hannover, Germany)
With Papers Workshops Discussions Concerts Installations
More Information www.cs-conf.de

The Hadron Particle Synthesizer is your ultimate granular synthesis tool. It can seamlessly morph between different sound processing methods, so you can take the plugin gradually from being a synthesizer to an audio effect for live input.

Focus on your music. The extreme flexibility of Hadron could have made it a quite complex device. The innovative user interface provides intuitive access to a very high number of control dimensions, this makes Hadron a breeze to play.

The plugin is of course free and open source.

Hadron Particle Synthesizer is written in Csound, developed in Csound, and Csound runs as the DSP engine in the Max for Live plugin.

Get it at http://www.partikkelaudio.com/downloads (Max For Live installer for OSX and Win)

The Csound source (all platforms, as it is Csound orchestra code) can be found here http://www.partikkelaudio.com/plugin_free/HadronSource.zip

You can expand your new sonic universe by buying expansion packs for Hadron at www.partikkelaudio.com

Full text newsletter at http://www.partikkelaudio.com/press-hadron-released

Hi All,

I have released a new blue, available at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com/

This release fixes a major bug with automation as well as introduces a
new Virtual Keyboard (for use with blueLive's MIDI system).

ChangeLog is below.

Thanks!
steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.4<
[released 2011.07.11]

Steven Yi-----------------------------------------------------------------------

blue

[new] - Virtual Midi Keyboard - visual piano keyboard with keyboard
shortcuts for input; generates MIDI note on/off's that route through
blue's MIDI system

[updated] - BlueSynthBuilder - moved "Manage Presets" button from top
level to being a menu option in the "Presets" menu

[fix] - correctly render parameters when they had automation turned off

[fix] - issue with German Keyboards where ALT key is used to access
characters fixed (keys using ALT were blocked)

[fix] - made "/usr/local/bin/csound" the default for OSX for Realtime and
Disk Render settings for new blue installations

Hi All,

We are happy to announce the Summer 2011 Issue of "Csound Journal" is now available. You can read online or download at:

http://www.csounds.com/journal/

Many thanks to the authors for submitting their wonderful articles! We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did!

Jim Hearon and Steven Yi

The first release of the Csound Manual at FLOSS is at
www.flossmanuals.net/csound/index
It is meant to offer a readable and up-to-date introduction about the many different aspects of Csound. Many thanks to all who have contributed. The textbook is GPL and can be freely used and distributed.

The latest version of the Csound manual is distributed with each new Csound version, that means about once a year.
Because there are changes in the manual lately - an example for nearly each opcode up to the letter T, some links are added to articles from The Csound Journal, The Csound Magazine and The Floss manuals - i thought it would be nice that a beta release of the manual became available for those interested.
This beta version of the Csound manual can be viewed here: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/csound_betamanual
Or it can be downloaded: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/csound_beta18a_manual.zip
The beta manual will be updated regularly.

Hi All,

I've put up a new version of blue at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

This release contains a number of bug fixes and everyone is encouraged to upgrade to it. One notable feature added is the ability to have always-on instrument code associated with the instrument. This allows adding things like chorus and delays that act instrument-wide and is meant to be part of the instrument design as part of the blue instrument. (Documentation on this is currently unavailable, though I am happy to share an instrument I am developing for those who are curious on how to use this; email me off-list for more information).

Note: This release does require using Java 6, and future versions of blue will require this as well.

I am currently working on migrating the existing documentation to a wiki. More information on that will be available when the first-pass of migration is complete.

Thanks!
steven

Ways Ahead
First International Csound Conference
September 30 - October 2 2011, HMTM Hannover, Germany

Hi All,

We are happy to announce the Winter 2011 Issue of "Csound Journal" is now available. You can read online or download at:

http://www.csounds.com/journal/

Many thanks to the authors for submitting their wonderful articles! We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did!

Jim Hearon and Steven Yi

The Csound textbook project on FLOSS manuals has moved to another site:
http://booki.flossmanuals.net/csound/

We are still in the process of writing, so contributions are VERY MUCH WELCOME! All you must do:
1) register at http://booki.flossmanuals.net
2) go to http://booki.flossmanuals.net/csound/_v/1.0/edit/
3) click on the "edit" button of any chapter. make your additions, changes etc and save.

Hi All,
an updated version of WinXound for Windows (3.3.4) is ready for
download at:
http://winxound.codeplex.com/releases/view/54192

Changes:
New: Analysis tool - added the ability to set the .pvx extension for Pvanal tool and the .sdif extension for Hetro tool;
Fix: Analysis tool - compiler doesn't work properly;
Fix: Pvanal tool - changed the default output file extension (from .pva to .pv);

Stefano

There are some new User Defined Opcodes which are designed to simplify live recording and playback with Csound:
1. BufRec records in a buffer (function table), with optional start point, end point, and wrap (loop record).
http://www.csounds.com/udo/displayOpcode.php?opcode_id=135
http://www.csounds.com/udo/displayOpcode.php?opcode_id=146
2. BufPlay plays from a buffer (function table), with control over speed (forward - backward), volume, start point, end point, and different options of wrapping/looping.

Hi All,
an updated version of WinXound for Windows and Linux is ready for download.

Download link: http://winxound.codeplex.com/releases/view/54192
WinXound Home Page: http://winxound.codeplex.com/

http://www.csounds.com/matt/d+d.html

+ now supports latest CsoundLib Universal Binary

+ fixed crashing bugs when rendering to file and other problems

+ updated opcode color syntax library

+ added new opcode "soundinmac"
FEATURES (benefits over existing soundin/diskins)
:: automatic sample rate and channel conversion (# of outputs can be DIFFERENT than # of soundfile channels)

:: higher quality (k-rate) pitch shifting than diskin2's sinc interpolation