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.