Programming digital music with Csound

by Peter Fitton

A guide to creating digital music with Csound The aim of the guide is to help you create digital music quickly and effectively at minimal cost. Csound is free software and it is a powerful language for programming music The guide is in four chapters Chapter 1 describes a Csound programme and explains how it works Chapter 2 analyses sound into its key amplitude, frequency and phase, and how they interact to produce a waveform Chapter 3 covers the main techniques used to generate sound sampling, additive synthesis, modulation, noise, granular synthesis and physical modelling Chapter 4 covers sound effects and sound processing techniques panning, amplitude processing, filtering, phasing, and delay

215 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 15, 2014