[comp.archives] [sun-spots] Re: CMUSIC and related programs

garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton) (01/03/91)

Archive-name: music/synth/cmix/1990-12-12
Archive: princeton.edu:/pub/music/*cmix.tar.Z [128.112.128.1]
Original-posting-by: garton@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Bradford Garton)
Original-subject: Re: CMUSIC and related programs
Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti)

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