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

From Jeremiah T. Isaacs
Sent Wed, Jan 27th 1999, 23:18

On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, icarus m wright wrote:

> 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? Has the stand alone box ever
> appeared, 'cause I've never found one? {last year some time I read
> smething about some company porting it to a Harvard supercomputer
> chipset.}
> 
> 
> ~I~

there is a _port_ of csound to Be, but it is just that, a port. AFAIK it
isnt multithreaded or changed to take advantage of Be system architecture.
doing so would/will take a lot of work.

available at http://www.be.com/beware/Audio/Csound.html

opinions on csound:  there is this curve of capability versus
complication, where they mutually increase one another.  csound is the
ugliest most amazing sound software you can use. (imo).  i love it.

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