Comments on: The Future of Csoundo

By: Jacob Joaquin

Jacob Joaquin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:09:52 +0000

Let me know how things work out. It’ll help me fix things up for future releases. And please keep in mind that Csoundo is still highly unstable as this is an ALPHA release. :)

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:05:41 +0000

I’ll mess with the CsOptions and get back to you. Doesn’t look like a processing/java problem, seems to be embedded somewhere in the csd. I’ve been using SuperCollider for everything lately so it’ll take a little bit for me to get used to Csound again, but it will be nice to come back…

By: Jacob Joaquin

Jacob Joaquin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:58:34 +0000

Floats is what you need, as Doubles isn’t supported yet. But yeah, it does sound like a commandline issue. There’s a way to temporarily fix this by changing the CsOptions in the synth.csd files.

; your command-line settings here.

Unfortunately, I don’t know what will work on windows. You might know already, and if you do, please do share.

The Java exit error is a bug I’m aware of. I’ll hopefully have it fixed by next release. I think I know what the solution will be.

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:47:06 +0000

I’m running floats, that might be my problem. I tried to run the experiment_1 csd file directly in Csound on the commandline and it wasn’t happy with me :)

The chInOut works flawlessly. The drawTables works, but when I close out it will throw a java error, should be easy to figure it out if I load up in Eclipse with a proper debugger. Experiment loads then dies before making any sound.

By: Jacob Joaquin

Jacob Joaquin — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:41:57 +0000

@Grant Muller:
Thanks to taking a look. Which example works? Are you running Csound floats or doubles?

You can check to see if you are running floats or doubles in the console output. It’s printed near the top like this:

PortMIDI real time MIDI plugin for Csound
PortAudio real-time audio module for Csound
virtual_keyboard real time MIDI plugin for Csound
0dBFS level = 32768.0
Csound version 5.12 (float samples) Jun 4 2010

By: Grant Muller

Grant Muller — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:37:31 +0000

Seems like it’s sort of hit or miss on Windows 7 for me thus far. I tried replacing the csnd.jar file with the one that came with the Csound installation and I can get one of the examples to work. The other two load up and then crash. I’ll look into it and see what I can find.

By: Create Digital Music » More Free Synthesis Goodness: QuteCsound Screencast, Csound with Processing

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:52:39 +0000

[…] It’s very early in development (“alpha”), but Jacob is already doing amazing things integrating Processing, the non-coder-friendly, artist sketchbook-style coding language, with Csound, in a new library called Csoundo. That’s an ideal combination, because you can do logic and visuals quickly in Processing, then turn to Csound for audio. This is where I imagine work in two of Csound’s most popular rivals – the object-oriented, OSC-savvy SuperCollider and visual patching, Max-descendent Pure Data – may lead, as well. Check out Jacob’s roadmap for more. […]

By: Jacob Joaquin

Jacob Joaquin — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:55:30 +0000

@Frederico Lopes: A couple people reported to me yesterday that they were successful in running Csoundo on Windows. They replaced the csnd.jar file that came with Csoundo with the csnd.jar that came with the Windows Csound binary installer at sourceforge. You might be able to get it up and running.

By: Frederico Lopes

Frederico Lopes — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:50:50 +0000

Dear Jacob:
It would be cool to have a Windows executable of your Csoundo. I’d like to try it.
Nice job, nice ideas!
Fred