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Dear Peruser-
In this directory are two files containing the CARL software distribution for
Sparc stations and for the NeXT computer. Both have been compressed with gzip.
When uncompressed with, say, gunzip, they each become MUCH larger tar files
containing many directories, subdirectories and files containing all the
sources and documentation for CARL software as it has been ported to the Sun
Sparc and NeXT platforms.
The Sparc version contains a more-or-less full port of the CARL software (and
requires a Fortran compiler to properly install).
The NeXT version contains a partial port of the CARL software, including the
cmusic program (modified slightly to know about NeXT .snd files) and the pv
phase vocoder program (fully described in my book Elements of Computer Music).
The NeXT version of cmusic is essentially the same as the "classical" one
except that it includes a new "-f" flag, as in the command
cmusic -f score.sc
which causes cmusic to directly create a soundfile called "score.snd"
(corresponding to the scorefile name) rather than requiring the usual pipe to
another program which writes sound files to disk (the one for the NeXT platform
is called "tosnd" and is included).
These programs were written principally by me and Gareth Loy over the past 15
years or so, with contributions from Mark Dolson (pvoc) and others. The
software distribution contains much (though often somewhat out-of-date)
documentation. The best source of information on cmusic and the pv programs is
my book Elements of Computer Music (be sure to obtain the third printing (the
Library of Congress page says "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3") which contains corrections of
hundreds of errata as compared with earlier printings (this printing was done
in early 1994). For other software the included documentation (man pages, help
files, etc.) is largely correct.
Good luck!
-F Richard Moore
Professor of Music
University of California, San Diego
frm@ucsd.edu
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Netfuture.ch.