[comp.music] Questions about Csound

mori@power (Hiroki MORI (OE)) (11/09/90)

I am interested in computer music & MIDI.  I have occasionally seen 
articles about Csound software in this newsgroup.  If anyone can 
answer any of the following questions, I would be grateful. 
(Sorry I lost the recent article on Csound.)

* Who makes Csound?

* What kind of computer can use Csound?

* What software functions does Csound provide? 
  (MIDI sensor or digital sampler, etc...)

* If this software is public domain, I would like to know the
  anonymous FTP site address.

Thanks!

HIROKI MORI

mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut) (11/11/90)

1.  Csound was written by Barry Vercoe at MIT.
2.  It can run on Macintoshes and some unix based machines.
3.  In one line - it's a digital audio processing and sound synthesis environm.
4.  It is public domain and can be ftp'ed from cecelia.media.mit.edu
    as pub/csound.tar.Z (750537 bytes).