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🔗Christopher Bailey <cb202@...>

6/29/2002 4:02:54 PM

>
> ***Is this a CSOUND piece?? Probably, because the sampled sounds
> are really great.
>

The quality of one's samples has nothing to do with whether or not
one uses CSOUND. Sucky samples in CSOUNDS will sound like. . . sucky
samples.

Of course, one can perhaps do more sophisticated processing and
modifications of samples in CSOUND. But most of the music I hear here on
the lists, seems to modify the samples timbrally only be selecting,
transposing and looping, and if that's all you do in CSOUND, well it's
just gonna sound like a sampler. If you use good samples, it will sound
good, if not. . .

Prent Rogers uses CSOUND. although I find the music to be lots of
fun and interesting from a tuning point of view, and although the way the
samples are deployed--(i.e.--the notes and rhythms), which according to
his program notes are often generated algorithmically, (and are probably
quite sophisticated), I still find most of the timbres somewhat
unsatisfyingly MIDI-esque.