Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The World of Csound -- About This Book -- What Is Csound? -- Why Use Csound? -- What You'll Need -- Resources -- The Canonical Csound Reference Manual -- The Csound Website -- The Online Manual -- Mailing List -- Code Examples -- The Csound Journal -- Online UDO Library -- Books for Further Study -- You -- Alternatives -- Chapter 2 Downloading and Installing -- Compiling Csound -- Doubles versus Floats -- Running the Installer -- Windows -- Macintosh -- Linux -- Installing CsoundQt -- Setting Up Your System -- System Test in CsoundQt -- System Test in the Terminal -- Chapter 3 QuickStart Projects -- Sequencing Project -- Launch CsoundQt and Create a New Project -- Create an Instrument and a Score -- Add an Amplitude Envelope -- Input Pitches from the Score -- Make a Richer Tone Color -- Add a Timbre Envelope -- Summing Up What We've Done So Far -- Add Rhythms, Chords, and Dynamics to the Score -- Control the Instrument Panning from the Score -- Process the Sound through a Reverb -- Sound Design Project -- Load a Sound File into a Table -- Create an Instrument and a Score -- Change the Playback Speed -- Add Ring Modul -- Modulate the Playback Speed -- Add a Delay -- A Basic Vocoder -- Chapter 4 The Structure and Syntax of a .csd File -- The Command Line -- Tags in the .csd File -- The Orchestra Header -- Other Items in the Header -- Adding Comments to Your Code -- Spacing and Parenthes -- Macros -- Chapter 5 Using the CsoundQt Interface -- The Toolbar and Menus -- Menus -- The Main Window -- The Editor -- The Inspector -- The Output Conso -- The Manual Pane -- The Configuration Box -- The Run Tab -- The General Tab -- The Widgets Tab -- The Editor Tab -- The Environment Tab -- The External Programs Tab -- The Template Tab -- Widgets -- Designing a Widgets Panel -- Live Events -- Editing Live Events.

Playback and Looping of Live Events -- Chapter 6 Building Your Own Instruments and Effects -- instr and endin -- i- versus k- versus a- -- The init Opcode -- Converting from a- to k- -- S- and Other Variable Prefixes -- Global Variables -- Mathematical Operat -- Using Parentheses -- Other Useful Mathematical Operations -- p-fields and p-values -- Logic and Flow Con -- Testing Values -- Using if/goto -- Using if/then/else -- The Ternary Operator -- Looping Opcodes -- Print Statements -- print -- printf -- printk -- printk2 -- printks -- prints -- sprintf -- Chapter 7 Thirty Opcodes You Must Know -- What Is an Opcode? -- How to Read Prototypes in the Manual -- Signal Generators -- A Basic Oscillator -- Other Oscillators -- Noise Generators -- FM Synthesis -- Granular Synthesis -- Sample Playback -- Physical Models -- Envelope Generators -- LFOs -- Filters -- Resonant Lowpass Filters -- State-Variable Filters -- Basic Tone-Shaping -- Global Signal Routing -- The zak Opcodes -- The Mixer Opcodes -- Pitch Converters -- cpsmidi -- String Manipulation Opcodes -- The Important GEN Routines -- The f-Statement -- The ftgen Opcode Family -- Sinusoids with GEN 09, 10, and 11 -- Building Tables out of Segments -- Reading Audio Files -- Your Own Data -- Table Operations -- Reading from Tables -- Writing to Tables -- Dynamics Control and Panning -- balance -- compress -- pan and pan2 -- Audio Output -- out and outs -- fout -- Effects -- Reverb -- Delay -- Distortion -- Instrument Control -- Analysis and Resynt -- User-Defined Opcode -- Creating Score Events during Performance -- schedule and schedwhen -- scoreline -- event -- Chapter 8 Writing a Csound Score -- Score Statements -- The i-statement -- The t-statement -- The f-statement -- Warping the Score with b- and v- -- The a- and x-statements -- The s- and e-statements -- Score Entry Shortcuts -- Carry Symbols.

Score Macros -- Computing Values in p-fields -- Using a Spreadsh -- Looping Score Sectio -- The r-statement -- The { and } Statements -- The Sorting Hat -- Legato Instruments -- Chapter 9 Front Ends -- blue -- Downloading and Installing blue -- Overview -- The Score -- WinXound -- Cecilia 4.2 -- Chapter 10 Using Csound with MIDI, OSC, Pd, Python, and Live Audio -- MIDI -- Setting Up a MIDI System -- Receiving MIDI Input -- Performance Considerations -- Keeping Csound Running -- A Monophonic Legato MIDI Instrument -- Csound and VST -- OSC -- Sending and Receiving Longer Messages -- Data Buffering -- Connecting Two Computers Using OSC -- Real-Time Audio Processing -- Using Csound with Pd -- Using Python within Csound -- The Python Opcodes -- Extending Csound Using Scripting Languages -- Csound in Ableton Live -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.