penrose@edda.css.gov (Christopher Penrose) (12/11/90)
|There is a powerful program for modern composition, signal processing and |synthesis called cmusic that will run on many UNIX machines (including |most Suns, the NeXT machine, and the DEC VAX line). cmusic is a rewriten |and much extended version of the computer music software developed at Bell |Labs over several decades. You may also obtain another related program, csound, via ftp at ems.media.mit.edu. csound has many more features than cmusic, faster execution, and is free. To obtain cmusic, a distribution fee of $250 must be paid to obtain the "free" CARL software distribtution. The CARL distribution does, however, have some MPU-401 centered MIDI utilities which might be very useful if you intend on interfacing an MPU-401 to your machine. I believe that Susan Fichera, a system administrator at CME/CARL, reads this very list (we love you Susan!) and you can get more details about the distribution by sending her email: sfl@wendy.ucsd.edu or sfl@carl.ucsd.edu. More free MIDI code can be had via ftp at ucsd.edu. I haven't tried any of the code yet; however, it seems much more generalized than the MPU-401 code included in the CARL software distribution. Christopher Penrose jesus!penrose
garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) (12/12/90)
In article <749@brchh104.bnr.ca> penrose@edda.css.gov (Christopher Penrose) writes: >|There is a powerful program for modern composition, signal processing and >|synthesis called cmusic that will run on many UNIX machines (including >|most Suns, the NeXT machine, and the DEC VAX line). > >You may also obtain another related program, csound, via ftp at >ems.media.mit.edu. There's also cmix, available via anonymous ftp from princeton.edu. It reads/writes soundfile scompatible with both the CARL package and csound. I believe cmix is in general the fastest of the three, and I prefer it because it allows one to use the "power and flexibility" of C to do bizarre things to sound. And it's free. Brad Garton Columbia University Music Department brad@woof.columbia.edu