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Date: Sun 20-Mar-1989 19:36:14 From: Unknown Subject: Csound in NeXT Pardon me if this has already been discussed... Has anyone ported the Csound music system from MIT to the NeXT? ie written a program to convert the sound file to a format the NeXT understands. Thanks for any info. Jeff Boone boone@neptune.oce.orst.edu >From: jsloan@thor.UUCP (John Sloan)
Date: Sun 21-Mar-1989 18:51:12 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Csound in NeXT >From-To: tjt@samedi.tis.llnl.gov (Tim Tessin) In article <9532@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> boone@neptune.oce.orst.edu (Jeff Boone) writes: > Pardon me if this has already been discussed... Has anyone ported the Csound > music system from MIT to the NeXT? ie written a program to convert the > sound file to a format the NeXT understands. Yes, It works great. The output of Csound (without headers, and set for 2 channels) can be sent to the sound chip with "cat test >/dev/sound0". The data is in 16 bit format. Now, for better results, you probably want to convert this file to the NeXT ".snd" format and use a real "play" program which overlaps reads and writes and provides better buffering than cat does. (Whoops, I didn't actually compile csound on NeXT, I did it on my Mac running A/UX and sent the data file to the NeXT). Tim Tessin - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >From: jhc@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Date: Sun 22-Mar-1989 15:31:03 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Csound in NeXT In article <128@ncis.llnl.gov> I write: > > < Stuff about Csound > > Several people have sent me mail asking about csound. Csound is a software package from mit media labs. It does mathematical synthesis of musical waveforms. The waveforms are stored as digital data files which must be sent to a DAC or sound chip to be played. It does not come with a "play" command due to the variety of hardware possibilities. It is available from mit via anonymous ftp from ems.media.mit.edu and you can direct questions to csound@ems.media.mit.edu. I just downloaded the most recent version and it appears to run on a MAC II under MPW. It should run on any unix system which supports floating point. Tim Tessin - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory >From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Date: Sun 26-Mar-1989 17:22:45 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Csound in NeXT Computer and Information Science In article <9532@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> boone@neptune.oce.orst.edu (Jeff Boone) writes: >Pardon me if this has already been discussed... Has anyone ported the Csound >music system from MIT to the NeXT? ie written a program to convert the >sound file to a format the NeXT understands. The port was fairly simple, although cc blew up completely on hetro (one of the optional programs). I'll drop a copy of my patches to the archive at cs.orst.edu on Monday (probably a good idea to put the package itself there, too). Using it is pretty easy. Hack the .orc file to produce 22.05 or 44.1 KHz samples, use the appropriate options to sfmake, and play that sucker (from a local disk; NFS is too slow). The correct options to sfmake are: 22.05KHz 44.1 KHz 2 channels -m -h -s This is, of course, far from the best way to generate sound on the NeXT, but until we get the rest of the DSP software, it'll keep us busy. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely) >From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
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