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These Csound tutorials are designed to showcase various aspects of using Csound on an XO computer.
These Csound tutorials are designed to showcase various aspects of using Csound on an XO computer.

== Tutorials and Resources ==

* [[Csound TOOTS]] An Instrument Design TOOTorial by Dr. Richard Boulanger
* [http://www.csounds.com/tootsother/vercoetut/Vercoe.html A Beginning Tutorial] by Barry Vercoe.
* [http://www.csounds.com/chapter1/index.html Chapter 1 from The Csound Book] The complete first chapter from The Csound Book, by Dr. Richard Boulanger
* [http://www.csounds.com/cascone/index.html Recontextualizing Ambient Music in Csound] by Kim Cascone
* [http://www.csounds.com/tutorials cSounds.com Tutorials Directory]
* [http://www.csounds.com/journal/articleIndex.html The Csound Journal and Magazine]
* [http://www.thumbuki.com/csound/blog/ The Csound Blog]


== Exploring Csound from the XO Terminal ==
== Exploring Csound from the XO Terminal ==

Revision as of 16:47, 28 March 2008

These Csound tutorials are designed to showcase various aspects of using Csound on an XO computer.

Tutorials and Resources

Exploring Csound from the XO Terminal

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.