Csound tutorials
These Csound tutorials are designed to showcase various aspects of using Csound on an XO computer.
Contents
Tutorials and Resources
- Csound TOOTS An Instrument Design TOOTorial by Dr. Richard Boulanger
- A Beginning Tutorial by Barry Vercoe.
- Chapter 1 from The Csound Book The complete first chapter from The Csound Book, by Dr. Richard Boulanger
- Recontextualizing Ambient Music in Csound by Kim Cascone
- cSounds.com Tutorials Directory
- The Csound Journal and Magazine
- The Csound Blog
Exploring Csound from the XO Terminal
Downloading with wget
The terminal utility wget downloads files directly from the internet. The following example downloads 4csEditor.zip, a library of approximately 500 Csound csd files:
wget http://csounds.com/4csEditor.zip
Flags
The following is a list of the most common used flags to be used in Csound-based activities and in the Terminal activity:
- --help A complete list of supported command-line flags for Csound.
- -odac Output audio stream to the Digital-to-analog_converter, sound card
- -iadc Read audio from the Analog_to_digital_converter, built-in microphone
- -d Suppress all displays
- -m0 Set message level to 0
- -b2048 Set sample frames per software sound I/O buffer to 2048
- -B4096 Set samples per hardware sound I/O buffer 20 4096
- -+rtaudio=alsa Set real time audio to the device alsa
- -+rtmidi=alsa Set real time MIDI to device alsa
For a list of flags, enter csound at the command-line, or csound --help for the complete list.
