In looking around today for music I could listen to that was created using Csound, I didn’t find much. This page (http://bumpermusic.blogspot.com/2005/07/csound-internet-concerts.html) looks promising — but the links there, which point back to items on csounds.com, are dead.

Googling for “csound compositions,” I find things like this (http://www.mail-archive.com/linart@li.org/msg00421.html), which is a nine-year-old mail message from a Paul Winkler. It has a link to a site that’s described as being “under construction.” After nine years? Not a good sign.

I also found a page of compositions by Dr. B’s students, which is the type of thing I’m looking for … but are his students the only ones composing in Csound? And while that page is on the csounds.com site, it doesn’t seem to be visible on the home page. What’s up with that?

I’m sure a lot of people are using Csound. Is it that no one is producing finished work with it? Or are the composers all tucking their work away on their own websites, where no one but their friends can find it?

I’d love to see a central repository of great music that folks who are curious about Csound could explore. Does anyone else think this would be a good thing?

–Jim Aikin

5.08 debian packages up for testing at

deb http://felipe.sateler.com/debian unstable main

If this packages don’t have any issues, then I will try to push them to
Debian.

—
Felipe Sateler

I have now uploaded Csound 5.08 packages for MacOS “Classic” (System 7.5 to
OS 9.2).  The files for MacOS have been added to the Sourceforge File
Release page in the same section as the other platforms (the “csound5”
package).

Download from here:

<http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81968&package_id=1204
82&release_id=584693>

The files available for MacOS are:

Csound5.08-OS9.smi.bin        Csound library, CsoundFront front end,
                              MIDI to Csound and Mr. Tweaky utilities,
                              examples, etc. for all users.

Csound5.08-OS9-src.smi.bin    Complete source code for Csound, the front
                              end, all dependencies, and extras.  Only
                              useful to programmers wishing to use the
                              API, develop plugins, write Cscore programs,
                              or to recompile Csound.

In addition to the general new features and improvements to Csound 5.08, the
MacOS version includes the following changes and bug fixes:

* Real-time audio input is functioning again.

* The “xyin” opcode works again.

* The “Score start time” option in the “Override Settings” window now works.

* Numerous other bug fixes and code improvements.

Please send all questions, comments, and feedback to my email address below
and include “Csound” in the subject line.

Thanks!

Anthony Kozar
mailing-lists-1001 AT anthonykozar DOT net
http://anthonykozar.net/