a nice new Csound instrument....

Sorry for the cross-post (is anyone actually reading only MMM and not
tuning?)

For all you Csounders:

I have been working on a Csound GUI/MIDI instrument. The code is heavily
based on Ian McCurdy's realtime instrument codebase---I took a particular
one, cleaned up the GUI to meet my needs, and added features that I wanted.
The microtonal part is still in progress, but I think if you have Csound and
want to give this a go, you'll be having many hours of fun. It won't be long
before I add tuning features for the novice. Right now, if you know how to
use 'cpstmid' in Csound, you can hack away at the file anyway and add that
feature yourself in minutes....too many tunings, too little time!

http://www.akjmusic.com/software/phase_mod_20090930.csd

It's a phase modulation instrument (how what most synths that do FM really
do it under the hood). It's great for rich pad-like textures (can't wait to
try it with some JI), glassy yet punchy FM-style basses, metallic noises,
wood drums, gongs and bells, organs, clangy electric guitars, electric
piano/clavinet-like sounds, etc. etc.....A feature I've added that is
missing from many FM synths---a resonant lowpass filter. I'll try to post
some audio samples of some of the sounds I've made---for such a simple
instrument, it's really expressive and capable of lots of timbres. I'm
thinking I want to do some ambient music down the road a bit; and this
instrument will be heavily called upon.

The header works out of the box for Linux, assuming you have Jack and ALSA
midi all set up. Non-Linux Csounders will have to modify the system options
at the top of the file to reflect your setup; see the Csound manual for
details.

Let me know if you try this, and what you thought!

Best,

Aaron Krister Johnson
http://www.akjmusic.com
http://www.untwelve.org