CSOUND README FOR MUSIC 173 note: Csound, by Prof. Barry Vercoe of MIT, is COPYRIGHT 1980-2001 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 orch.txt score.txt (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 ("score.txt") 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. 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. Parameter 6 is a left-to-right pan, from 1 to 9. Parameter 7 is reverb send in dB, with 100 meaning "full blast." ----- 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-help.hlp", this file, "orch.txt", "score.txt", and "soundin.10", etc. Csound for linux or Mac isn't included here. A good Csound URL is: http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-books/csound/frontpage.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.