MUS 329J - Introduction to Computer Music

MUS 329J -- Unique Number 21860
Introduction to Computer Music

Meets: TU-TH 2-3:30 in MRH 4.170 or 4.178
Fall Semester, 2006
General Information on Public Domain Csound

Link to the following page for lots of good information about Csound:

http://www.csounds.com

Csound5, which is the version we will be using in this class, is available at http://csound.sourceforge.net/

Detailed instructions for installing Csound on PC will be posted here shortly.
An easy-to-use Windows front end for Csound, called WinXound, is located here:

Macintosh Install Instructions

  1. Download the correct csound5 for your platform (10.3.x or 10.4.x) from http://csound.sourceforge.net/
  2. Install the Csound5.mpkg (this installs all of the various libraries and basic GUIs.
  3. Download MacCsound (http://csounds.com/matt/MacCsound1.3b1.dmg), which is a front-end that has capabilities that are somewhat similar to WinXound Pro.

If you are using MacCsound, the basic environment variables can be set in the options. If you are old school and working on the command line or using one of the basic frontends installed with csound5 package, you will need to do a little extra work to establish your environment variables. Instructions are in the readme that comes with Csound5.