Hi All,

We are happy to announce the Winter 2012 Issue of "Csound Journal" is now available. You can read online or download at:

http://www.csounds.com/journal/

Many thanks to the authors for submitting their wonderful articles! We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did!

Jim Hearon and Steven Yi

We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.15.  The sources
are on the standard Sourceforge location
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.15/)
as both zip and tar.gz

Platform packages will follow shortly, and the manual on Friday.
==John ffitch
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Notes for 5.15
==============

New parser has been subjected to a great deal of work.  It now has
better checking of argument types and use, better diagnostics and
increased functionality.  We have only reached this stage in the last
few days so we judge it prudent to leave the old parser as standard.
We would be pleased if more users tried the new and gave the
developers feedback.

A major reorganisation means that there are many fewer plugins and
most opcodes are in the base (about 1250 of them).  A side effect of
that is that leaving old plugins from an earlier release is a
disaster, and so 5.15 will not load earlier plugins.

The multicore system is now safe (ie maintains semantics) when zak,
channels or table modification are made.

New Opcodes:

A new version of Csound - version 5.14 - is out, but there is still work to be done on the Csound manual. The announcement of the latest beta version of the manual fell of the front page and therefor it got lost somewhat, but by making this new announcement it is right back again on the front page.
Those interested in the latest Csound manual can check it out.

This beta version of the Csound manual can be viewed here: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/csound_betamanual/manual_Xmas
Or it can be downloaded: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/manual_Xmas.zip
The beta manual will be updated regularly.

Hi All,

I've released a new version of blue, available at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

ChangeLog is below. Thanks!

Steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.8<
[released 2011.11.19]

UPDATED

* Render Time Pointer Animation code redesigned for smoother playback, made
default Playback Setting option for Frames Per Second default to 24 fps

* OSX - Removed use of -D32 flag when running blue, now will default to whatever
version of Java the user has set by default (64-bit, 32-bit)

* BSB - Made Checkboxes Automatable [RFE 3419780]

FIX

* OSX - Opening sub-popup menus would cause an exception to be thrown, caused by
changes in 2.1.7 to get the System Menu Bar working in blue

Hi All,

I have made a new release of blue at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

ChangeLog is below.

Thanks!
steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.7<
[released 2011.11.05]

NEW

* Added Help menu link for "blue/Csound IRC Chat" that will open up the Freenode
webchat webpage to chat in #bluecsound and #csound channels for help

* Added ability to double click split pane dividers within windows to minimize
the divider to the far left or right (or up/down), depending on which side it
is closest to; i.e. double-click to minimize the project instrument list and
instrument library to maximize the space for the Instrument Editor interface

* OSX: Made Look and Feel work with System Menu Bar

* Added Dave Seidel's "Cloud Study" pieces to the examples/pieces/daveSeidel
folder

UPDATED

* Updated opcodes.xml to use latest from 5.14 manual

FIX

* Extra render time from mixer was being added twice to the total duration when
creating note for Mixer instrument

* Instantiating BSB instruments that previously did not have Always-On Text
could cause exceptions when rendering

* BSB Interface editor would nudge selected objects after edit enabled turned
off (Bug #3424474)

* BlueLive: Recompile button would get a hung dialog if the code that changed
caused a compilation error by Csound

Thanks to Joachim Heintz, who has updated the Csound Conference 2011 YouTube channel with much great video content from the conference.

Joachim writes:

all discussions, workshops, papers and some other stuff from the csound
conference in hannover (septemer 30 - october 2, 2011) can now be found
at this youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/csconf2011

the videos include:
- developer-user-roundtables:
-- roundtable 1: technology
-- roundtable 2: community
- workshops:
-- steven yi: composing with blue
-- michael gogins: writing csound opcodes in lua
-- reza payami: csound - maxmsp translation
-- richard boulanger: introducing csound4live
-- rory walsh: developing csound plugins with cabbage
-- max marcoll: quince - new ways of modular music editing
- papers:
-- andrés cabrera: python scripting in qutecsound
-- reza payami: csound and object-orientation
-- gleb rogozinsky: a personal view on teaching csound
-- peiman khoshravi: circumspectral sound diffusion
-- kim ervik/oeyvind brandtsegg: creating reverb effects using granular
synthesis
-- massimo avantaggiato: pwgl - a score editor for csound
- richard boulanger: keynote

Thanks to the hard work of Colman O'Reilly, Dr. Richard Boulanger, and their team of developers, Csound is now available for Ableton Live / Max for Live users.

It is available for download at:

http://www.csoundforlive.com

To view a video produced by CsoundforLive developer Matt Hines which outlines the features of the software, go here:

http://player.vimeo.com/video/30576925

According to Dr. Richard Boulanger:

"CsoundForLive is a collection of over 120 real time audio-plugins that brings the complexity and sound quality of Csound to the fingertips of ANY Ableton Live user – without ANY prior Csound knowledge.

With my former student, and now business partner, Colman O’Reilly, I have been working around the clock for months to collect, adapt, create, wrap, and simplify a huge collection of Csound instruments and make them all work simultaneously and interchangeably in Ableton Live.

The latest version of Csound, version 5.14, is up at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.14/

Here is the README for information on what has been changed/updated/added:

Notes for 5.14
==============

It has been quite a delay since the last release. As well as many
bug-fixes this release has many new opcodes etc.

However the BIG change is that the new parser is now built for normal
systems and is believed to be complete. The old parser is still
enabled by default but more experienced users might like to try the
--new-parser option so we can nail any remaining problems.

The other big but still somewhat experimental change is that if the
new parser is used the multi-core mechanism is available. Use of a
"-j 4" in the options will use 4 threads. This is semantically
correct as long as there is no use of zak or channel operations
between instruments, or dynamic writing of tables. These will be fixed
soon (we understand and have a scheme, but it will take time).
Multi-core should give improvements in performance when ksamps is
large, and/or when instruments are computationally heavy. The

Hello, Csounders! Per our discussions at the International Csound Conference, there are two new links in the top menu at Csounds.com: #Csound on IRC (internet relay chat) and the discussion boards at Nabble. These are great resources to reach out and instantly discuss all things Csound with members of our international community. These links are also found in the Community page of Csounds.com

The Nabble board is a great place to dive into topical discussions and get the latest news from members of the community, and has been active since 2005.

IRC was created in 1988. Client software is now available for every major operating system that supports Internet access. As of April 2011, the top 100 IRC networks served more than half a million users at a time, with hundreds of thousands of channels operating on a total of roughly 1,500 servers out of roughly 3,200 servers worldwide.

The #Csound IRC channel is a great resource to share ideas, ask questions, and link up with the world of Csound in real time, right from within your desktop or mobile browser!

Hi All,

I have made a new release of blue at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

The release has a couple of bug fixes and a new .csoundrc text editor. For those who will be attending the blue workshop at the Csound Conference, please download and use this latest version.

Thanks!
steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.6<
[released 2011.09.29]

NEW

* Added ctrl-shift-w (cmd-shift-w) shortcut to close the current project

* Added .csoundrc Editor to the tools menu, will open file pointed to by
CSOUNDRC environment variable, or if not defined will use $HOME/.csoundrc

FIXES

* If no parameters are used, no longer generate a parameter instrument; fixes
scenario when user is using just global orc/sco to not generate an instr with
an overlapping instr number

* blueLive MIDI generated notes using bare note number instead of padded number,
i.e. "i1.1" instead of "i1.001". Not padding caused a possible clash if
fractional value collided, i.e. "i1.1", "i1.10", and "i1.100" would clash with
each other