CSOUND README FOR MUSIC 173

note: Csound, by Prof. Barry Vercoe of MIT, is
    COPYRIGHT 1980-1995 MIT
and is free for noncommercial use.

USING CSOUND FOR MONTAGE.

this directory contains orchestra and score
files named x.orc and x.sco.  After installing
csound (see the course home page) you can download these
two files and soundin.{10,11,12} and type,

csound -W -o test.wav x.orc x.sco

(the -W is case sensitive) and you'll get an output
file, "test.wav" that you can play.  You can type
just "csound" to get a list of flags you can add.

Notes in the score ("x.sco") specify instrument number,
start beat, duration in beats, soundfile number, and amplitude boost.

Parameter 4, the soundfile number, is "14" to select "soundin.14" as
an input file.

In this example paramter 5 gives an
amplitude boost in decibels (or if negative will give
an attenuation in decibels.)  Zero means the output gets
the same amplitude as the input.

The files, "stereo.orc" and "stereo.sco" do the same thing but with the
addition of stereo pan and reverb, which you specify in two additional
parameters.

----- OPERATING SYSTEM DEPENDENCIES ------------------

The Music 173 web page contains support files for Unix, Mac, and Windows
platforms.

If you're looking at this from the web, you'll want to download some or all
of the files.  If you're on a PC running Windows, you should probably download
"csound.exe", "csound.hlp", this file, and the two ".sco" and ".orc" files.
If your link is hogh bandwidth, you might as well download everything; otherwise
you'll need some 44100 Hz. mono WAV files in place of the "soundin" files here.

Csound for linux or Mac isn't included here.  A good Csound URL is:
http://comp.music.lsu.edu/eams/software/csound.html

On Linux I found that the  Csound-3.50.Linux.bin.tgz version worked best.

Finally, if you're using your ACS class account on NT, just grab the
CSOUND files from the "public" area, copy them into your own workspace, and
proceed as above.