[LAU] csound help

Rustom Mody rustompmody at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 17:35:18 UTC 2012


Thanks Julien
It was the function table that was missing.  Both 15000 and 44100 work

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Julien Claassen <julien at mail.upb.de>wrote:

> Hi Rustom!
>  First your iamp at 44100 is rather high. Try 15000 or anything up to
> 32768. Or investigate the 0dbfs header statement for giving volume in DB.
>  How did you call csound? With that file, youshould do:
> csound -W -o out.wav test.csd (or whatever you call your file). Better
> still, put something like this in the CsOptions block:
>
-W -o out.wav
>  This will generate an out.wav fie.
>  The essential thing, which is still missing, is the ftable, to hold the
> sinewav, that the oscil opcode (a simple oscillator) will output. It
> doesn't hold its own waveform, but read it from a function table. So in the
> CsScore section start with:
> f1 0 32768 10 1 ; ftable 1, don't know the second, but it's almost always
> 0 :-), the third is the number of entries, the quality or resolution of
> your waveform (32768 points to form a single sinewave, 10 is the number of
> the function generator, which in this case is a sine generator and 1 is its
> first parameter. Says: Create the first harmonic, or whatever. You can look
> those up in the csound manual as well. Probably search for gen01 to see,
> where the list starts. GEN 9, 10 and 19 are the ones for sinewaves, if I'm
> not mistaken. But this one is the easiest.
>  If that doesn't help, we can see about it off-list, since then it might
> get really specific to your subject. :-) You're welcome to send me
> CSD-files or if you really get interested in csound as a tool, which is
> good for teaching all sorts of music related stuff, you might subscribe to
> the csound user's list.
>
>
Well I first subscribed  to the list at csounds.  My question is here
http://www.csounds.com/forum/2

I asked here after no answer there.  Is there another list?

 Warm regards
>          Julien
>
>
Thanks again Julien

Rusi
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