It is very common for ide's for programming languages to have menu's that are definable, This is the feature I am waiting for because there are a number of utilities that are available (I could make a python version of freq to sco) outside the gui that would be helpful to have. I.E. read from a file that the user can change. It is probably outside the possibility for the editor but I think that there is a 2 controller (I forget the name) that if the highlighting routines where written from scratch would provide highlighting for the table numbers although it is best to use constants.

FMbot-00 is an constrained-random algorithmic just intonation composition, using a retriggering synth I call FMbot. The FMbot synth contains some simple constrained-random orchestra code and takes only the basic three pfields, instrument, note start time, and duration, making it a very easy synth to use and compose with. The results will be quite a bit different each time the song is played. I hope you find it interesting and/or amusing.

BW

Three tempered tritave tunings take turns.

http://bwong.ca/template1.php?sub=11

I have posted two minor software tools on my website at http://www.bwong.ca

etrcalc.pd is a Pure Data patch that calculates the closest match to an interval within any equal temperament tuning.

ethan-00.zip is a Windows only executable file that displays tuning data in cents and frequency ratio for any equal temperament tuning.

Obviously these have nothing specifically to do with Csound, they are just my learning tutorials for a couple of new programming languages, but perhaps someone might find them useful utilities for composition or synth design, as I do.

there are opcodes in the manual that are missing good, simple and/or complete examples. Sometimes there are just plain bugs and the opcodes do not work as they should. This makes that these opcodes seems like black boxes and make them unusable.
I think an example should clarify immediately why at the time it was necessary to create this particular opcode. Without this, knowledge about it can get lost.
If someone knows of an example for an opcode that has been placed in the list below, please let me know.

These are my guidelines for the examples in the manual. They should:

The STK opcodes in Csound were unclear to me because they are not documented in the manual. Using "csound -z" shows 27 of these opcodes. In UbuntuStudio10.04 i was building Csound as described in the manual from CVS. The STK opcodes can be found in the STK download section https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/stk/download.html . Download the source distribution and follow proceedings as described in the text below.

Qutecsound is developing fast and in the repository of Ubuntu Karmic there is no Qutecsound at all. For 10.04 there was an older version 0.4.3 available but i wanted the latest and the most stable version. There is a debian package that can be downloaded and installed. It can be found here: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/q/qutecsound/

All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

Edgar Allen Poe, The Bells, 1849

Low quality mp3
http://soundcloud.com/brian-wong/tintinnabulation-3

Higher quality .ogg version here on the podcast http://www.csounds.com/node/1381

A while back, I posted about a script I wrote in Ruby to convert standard midifiles to Csound scores (http://www.csounds.com/node/87). Some people seem to have found it useful, so you might like to know that I've made a bit of an update.

Unicycloid and Unicycloid2 are two pieces created with variations on a one-dimensional cellular automata composition system using a cycloid synth based on the design presented in the article by Hans Mikelson "Parametric Equation Oscillators" in Csound Magazine #2 http://www.csounds.com/ezine/spring1999/

You can check out the songs at http://www.soundcloud.com/brian-wong