Re: (idm) if Csound and BEOs had childeren?

From Marc 3 Poirier
Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 21:21

> Has anyone ported Csound to Be? Csound may quite possibly be the world's
> most powerful synth engine that no-one ever uses [mostly because making
> it work is suspiciously like programming]. Also, if anyone's ever used
> it, what were your opinions of Csound?

I don't know what BEOS is, but I use Csound for DOS & Csound for Windows.
Basicly, it is more like programming than using a physical synth because
you do everything by typing up text files.  It can be very slow to get
anything done, but you get the more control over what you do & more
possibilities than you would with any other approach.  I think it's the
best for doing things with inputted sound files.  There is some really
unbelievable stuff you can do to your recordings, & certain common things
can be done with much higher accuracy & quality than with other methods,
but all of this takes much processing power.  Some things I do take hours
to compile.  These have been my brief thoughts on Csound.

Marc Poirier