Csound's user surliness

I downloaded the latest Csound, and got it to render an
orchestra&score file. After doing that, I did it again with
intruments changed so as not to be pure sine waves. Things were
looking well, but then I found that after experimenting with other
settings, I could never after get it to produce a wav file which
played, and which WaveGain would not say had an error.

I got so frustrated I downloaded a different version of Csound and
tried to use that. No luck! I can't find it, but somewhere or other
it has stored some information inimical to the process of rendering a
file, and refuses to let go of it.

The sad thing is, this is typical of Csound, one of the most user-
unfriendly programs you will ever find.

If I can ever get it to work again, I think Herman's midi files might
be interesting to do with Setherized partials. If I can make it all
work, and Herman agrees (Herman?) I might put up some ogg files for
the results.

Gene Ward Smith wrote:

> If I can ever get it to work again, I think Herman's midi files might > be interesting to do with Setherized partials. If I can make it all > work, and Herman agrees (Herman?) I might put up some ogg files for > the results.

Feel free. I've had some good results with using Cool Edit to filter out individual partials from samples and retune them to fit 15-ET and 16-ET tunings: my final version of the Mizarian Porcupine Overture used this technique.

ftp://ftp.io.com/pub/usr/hmiller/music/porcupine-overture.mp3

I used to have a page on my web site to the effect that anything on there is free to use for any reasonable non-commercial purposes. I'm not sure what happened to that page, but it's still applicable: I won't have any objections if anyone wants to retune my MIDI files.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/music/index.html

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith"
<gwsmith@s...> wrote:

I can't find it, but somewhere or other
> it has stored some information inimical to the process of rendering
a
> file, and refuses to let go of it.

It turns out that the real problem is that the output device got
reset. While WaveGain and Oggdrop complain, the files will play and
can be compressed to ogg vorbis.

"Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@...> wrote:

> The sad thing is, this is typical of Csound, one of the most user-
> unfriendly programs you will ever find.

This may make life easier. There's a win version now.
http://music.ucdavis.edu/re4m/cecilia/
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