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Csound is both a [[Programming languages|programming language]] and a sound synthesis engine. It will be included on the OLPC to be used by applications or directly by the children. |
Csound is both a [[Programming languages|programming language]] and a sound synthesis engine. It will be included on the OLPC to be used by applications or directly by the children. |
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Further information about Csound is on their website: http://csounds.com/ |
Further information about Csound is on their website: http://csounds.com/ or see their instructions for playing Csound in Pippy [http://csounds.com/node/60]. |
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Revision as of 01:08, 4 March 2008
Csound is the music and audio signal processing language developed by MIT's Barry Vercoe. Csound will provide audio services for the OLPC computer.
Csound is both a programming language and a sound synthesis engine. It will be included on the OLPC to be used by applications or directly by the children.
Further information about Csound is on their website: http://csounds.com/ or see their instructions for playing Csound in Pippy [1].
Midi playback
Csound can play back midi files; this functionality primarily exists in the shipping builds, but is not turned on.
Csound activities
You can see a number of activities developed by Greg for 542, mostly uploaded here:
http://csounds.com/GregCsoundActivities.zip
Sample Code
- A simple Python project using Csound to create an audible system load monitor using the standard Python Csound binding
- TamTam uses a custom C++ wrapper around Csound and has a very large sound library available