Alves CSound book recommendation

> By the way, details on how to do tunings and realtime performance with
> Csound are in the now newly available book/CD-ROM _Making Music with
> Csound_ (in which I have chapter on implementing tunings):

I tried amazon and got Boulangers book of a different title. Is
this correct? There is also no description of the book or CDs contents
at the site, maybe you or another author could stick something there?

I'm probably not alone in being very interested in CSound but anything
that would help get me over the learning curve could be the thing to
make me take the plunge. ("curve? plunge?...")

By the way, I really enjoyed your tape and will probably upgrade to
the CD version. Hope you have some more projects in the pipe.

Bob Valentine

>From: Robert C Valentine <BVAL@IIL.INTEL.COM>
>
>> By the way, details on how to do tunings and realtime performance with
>> Csound are in the now newly available book/CD-ROM _Making Music with
>> Csound_ (in which I have chapter on implementing tunings):
>
>I tried amazon and got Boulangers book of a different title. Is
>this correct? There is also no description of the book or CDs contents
>at the site, maybe you or another author could stick something there?
>
Yes, the title of the book has changed, and apparently I got a listing
under the old title. The correct title is _The Csound Book_. The full
contents and text of some chapters is available at:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/csound/fpage/pub/csbook/csbook.html

My chapter (editorially retitled, unfortunately, to fit into the MIDI
section) is on the CD-ROM, as is the complete score and orchestra of a
freely modulating JI piece of mine, Hiway 70. More information about Csound
is now at:

http://www.csound.org/

>I'm probably not alone in being very interested in CSound but anything
>that would help get me over the learning curve could be the thing to
>make me take the plunge. ("curve? plunge?...")

The CD-ROMs that come with the book are helpful in that regard in that it
has hundreds of ready-made instruments. Many more along with their sounds
are available on the Csound Catalog CD-ROM (available separately).
>
>By the way, I really enjoyed your tape and will probably upgrade to
>the CD version. Hope you have some more projects in the pipe.

Thanks! I do.

Bill

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