THE CSOUND MANUAL : CONTENTS

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PREFACE by Barry Vercoe

HOW TO USE THE CSOUND MANUAL

SYNTAX OF THE ORCHESTRA

• DIRECTORIES and FILES :

SFDIR, SSDIR, SADIR
 
• NOMENCLATURE:

opcodes, arguments, result mnemonics
 
• ORCHESTRA STATEMENT TYPES

 
• CONSTANTS AND VARIABLES

 
• EXPRESSIONS

• ARITHMETIC OPERATIONS

 
• CONDITIONAL VALUES

 
• ASSIGNMENT STATEMENTS:

=, init, tival, divz
 
• ORCHESTRA HEADER STATEMENTS:

sr, kr, ksmps, nchnls
 
• INSTRUMENT BLOCK STATEMENTS:

instr, endin
 
• ORCHESTRA MACRO SYSTEM

 
• PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS:

goto, tigoto, if ... goto, timout, reinit, rigoto, rireturn
 
• DURATION CONTROL STATEMENTS:

ihold, turnoff , turnon
 
• VALUE CONVERTERS:

int, frac, abs, ftlen, i, exp, atan, tanh,  log, sqrt, sin, cos, dbamp, ampdb, rnd, birnd, ftlen, ftlptim, ipow, kpow, apow
 
• PITCH CONVERTERS:

octpch, pchoct, cpspch, octcps, cpsoct cps2pch, cpsxpch, pch, oct, cps
 
• MIDI CONVERTERS:

notnum, veloc, cpsmidi(b), octmidi(b), pchmidi(b) , ampmidi, aftouch, chpress, pchbend, midictrl, midictrl, midictrlsc, chanctrl, ctrlinit, moscil , kon, midic7 , imidic7, imidic14 , midic14, imidic21 midic21, ioutc, koutc, ioutc14, koutc14, ioutpb, , koutpb, ioutat, koutat, ioutpc, koutpc, ioutpat, koutpat, mclock, mrtmsg, xtratim, release, ion , ioff, iondur , iondur2,
 
• SIGNAL GENERATORS:

line, expon, linseg, linsegr,  expseg,  expsegr, phasor, table, tablei, oscil1, osciln, oscil1i, oscil, oscili, foscil, foscili, itablew tablew, tablew, tablewkt, tablewkt, itableng, tableng, itablegpw, tablegpw, tablemix, itablemix, tablecopy, itablecopy , tablera, tablewa, loscil, doscil, poscil, buzz, gbuzz, adsyn, pvoc, pvread, pvbufread, pvinterp, pvcross, tableseg, tablexseg, vpvoc, pvadd, cross2, fof, fof2, fog, grain, granule, sndwarp, sndwarpst, pluck, wgpluck2, repluck, wgbow, wgflute, wgbrass, wgclar, shaker, moog, marimba, vibes, mandol,agogobel, voice, fmvoice, fmbell,  fmrhode, fmwurlie, fmmetal,  fmb3, fmpercfl, rand, randh, randi, xlinrand, xtrirand, xexprand, xbexprnd, xcauchy, xpcauchy, xpoisson, xgauss, xweibull, xbeta, xuniform
 
• SIGNAL MODIFIERS:

linen, linenr, envlpx, port, tone, atone, reson, areson, butterhp, butterlp, butterbp, butterbr, nlfilt, filter2, kfilter2, zfilter2, dcblock, lpread, lpreson, lpfreson, lpslot, lpinterpol, rms, gain, balance, follow, dam, downsamp, upsamp, interp, integ, diff, samphold, harmon, delayr, delayw, delay, delay1, deltap, deltapi multitap, vdelay, comb, alpass, reverb reverb2, convolve
 
• ZAK PATCHER:

zir, zkr, ziw, zkw, ziwm, zkwm, zkmod, zamod, zkcl, zacl, zar, zarg, zaw, zawm
 
• OPERATIONS WITH SPECTRAL DATA TYPES:

octdown, noctdft, specaddm, specdiff, specscal, spechist, specfilt, specaccm, specptrk, specsum, specdisp
 
• SENSING & CONTROL:

tempest, xyin, tempo, timek, times, itimek, itimes, instimek, instimes
 
• SOUNDFILE INPUT & OUTPUT:

in, ins, inq, soundin, diskin, out, outs, outq, pan , locsig, locsend, space, spsend, spdist, kread, kread2 , kread3, kread4, kdump, kdump2 , kdump3, kdump4 , hrtfer
 
• SIGNAL DISPLAY:

print, display, dispfft, printk, printk2, printks

• Preprocessing of Standard Scores
• Next-P and Previous-P Symbols
• Ramping
• The Score Macro Facilities
• Function Table Statement
• Instrument Note Statements
• Advance Statement
• Tempo Statement
• Sections of Score
• End of Score

• GEN01
• GEN02
• GEN03
• GEN04
• GEN05, GEN07
• GEN06
• GEN08
• GEN09, GEN10, GEN19
• GEN11
• GEN12
• GEN13, GEN14
• GEN15
• GEN17
• GEN20
• GEN21
• GEN25
• GEN27
• GEN28

• Orchestra Declaration
• Function Declaration Section
• Score Encoding
• Pitch and Rhythm
• Groupettes
• Slurs and Ties
• Parameters
• Macros
• Divisi
• Additional Features
• Key Signatures,
• Accidental Following,
• Octave Following,
• Vertical Following,
• Transposition,
• Next-value and Previous-value Parameters
• Ramping,
• f0 Statement

• The Extract Feature
• Independent Preprocessing scsort

• intro directories, paths, and soundfile formats
• sndinfo - get basic information about a soundfile
• hetro - hetrodyne filter analysis for adsyn
• lpanal - lpc analysis for the lp generators
• pvanal - fourier analysis for pvoc (Dan Ellis)
• cvanal - convolution analysis for convolve (Greg Sullivan)

• Events, Lists, and Operations
• Writing a Main program.
• Compiling a Cscore program

• A Beginning Tutorial (Barry Vercoe)
• The Orchestra File
• The Score File
• The csound Command
• More about the Orchestra
• An Instrument Design Tutorial (R.C. Boulanger)
• Introduction
• Toot 1: Play One Note
• Toot 2: "P-Fields"
• Toot 3: Envelopes
• Toot 4: Chorusing
• Toot 5: Vibrato
• Toot 6: Gens
• Toot 7: Crossfade
• Toot 8: Soundin
• Toot 9: Global Stereo Reverb
• Toot 10: Filtered Noise
• Toot 11: Carry, Tempo & Sort
• Toot 12: Tables & Labels
• Toot 13: Spectral Fusion
• When Things Sound Wrong
• Suggestions for Further Study
• A FOF Synthesis Tutorial (J.M. Clarke)

A CSOUND QUICK REFERENCE

• VALUE CONVERTERS
• PITCH CONVERTERS
• PROGRAM CONTROL
• MIDI CONVERTERS
• SIGNAL GENERATORS
• SIGNAL MODIFIERS
• OPERATIONS USING SPECTRAL DATA TYPES
• SENSING & CONTROL
• SOUND INPUT & OUTPUT
• SIGNAL DISPLAY
• ZAK PATCHER

• Pitch Conversion Table
• Intensity Conversion Table
• Formant Table