Music 173: instructions for using computers
(Winter 2001)
COURSE URL:
https://msp.ucsd.edu/syllabi/173.02w/
The main software tools we'll use are:
- Audacity, an open-source (free) sound editor;
- Csound, the standard audio rendering package, also free.
Audacity comes from the Carnegie-Mellon Computer
Science department and is available at
https://audacity.sourceforge.net/.
You can just grab the "zip" file and decompress it, or else use the
self-installing binary.
Csound comes from
ftp://ftp.maths.bath.ac.uk/pub/dream/newest/ . Get "csound_new.zip".
An HTML manual can be found on
https://www.lakewoodsound.com/csound/ . There are many other Csound
resources that you can search for on the web.
Courseware.
Here is a 2M ZIP file with
Audacity, Csound, and starter
files for using Csound. Directions for using csound are in the "README.txt"
file. Download the whole collection (or omit the executable files if you
already have them).
The Csound files are also available for Macinstoshes
and unix machines.