Silence (was CSound)

Silence 7.0 is at

http://www.pipeline.com/~gogins/Silence/Silence.htm

*However*, I just went there and was informed that he had exceeded his
bandwidth limit for the month -- come back in May :-(. Yeah, really!! :-(
Anyhow, his e-mail address is

mailto:gogins@pipeline.com

I am getting back to computer sound again ... and microtonality, too. A
viable alternative to CSound is "sfront", available at

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/index.html

It doesn't have a GUI, but the orchestra / instrument language is C-like
rather than assembler-like. There is less existing code for "sfront" than
there is for CSound ... although CSound code is so hard to read I'm not sure
that's a disadvantage of "sfront".

--
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky, Chief Scientist, Borasky Research
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If there's nothing to astrology, how come so many famous men were born on
holidays?

Dear "M.,

--- In tuning@y..., "M. Edward Borasky" <znmeb@a...> wrote:
> A viable alternative to CSound is "sfront"

[snip]

> It doesn't have a GUI, but the orchestra / instrument language is
> C-like rather than assembler-like.

"Well, young man, be thankful that this medicine is castor oil-like
rather than Drano-like."

> ... although CSound code is so hard to read I'm not sure that's a
> disadvantage of "sfront".

I think that all of this is swell that it is another fine product of
open-source development, but to leave things in the state where a
musician has to muck about *that* deep into coding to use it for its
intrinsic purpose... sigh.

Wouldn't we laugh if you had to put together files for "font format
lists" and "page layout widgets" to compile in order to use a word
processor (I realize that I'm stretching the metaphor, but I also
think that, without better up-front tools, Csound isn't being
utilized as much or as well as it could. Or I could be wrong.)

Cheers,
Jon

--- In tuning@y..., JSZANTO@A... wrote:

/tuning/topicId_21560.html#21564
>
> Wouldn't we laugh if you had to put together files for "font format
> lists" and "page layout widgets" to compile in order to use a word
> processor (I realize that I'm stretching the metaphor, but I also
> think that, without better up-front tools, Csound isn't being
> utilized as much or as well as it could. Or I could be wrong.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jon

You know, Jon... it really seems as though one has to be the type of
composer who likes to mess around with computers on a lower level to
get a lot out of this product. I've done SOME things with it, but,
because I know the time involved, keep putting anything more off...
My composing time is worth something to me, and I have other ways of
doing things that seem equally successful... at least to ME...

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Joseph Pehrson