blue

Table of Contents

Preface

Credits

I. User's Manual

1. Getting Started

Introduction

About blue

Composition Environments

Installation

Requirements

Installing blue

Installing Csound

Setting Up Program Options

Primary Editors

Score Timeline

Orchestra Manager

Tables Manager

Globals Manager

User-Defined Opcodes Manager

Project Properties

Mixer

Tools

Code Repository

BlueShare

Scanned Synthesis Matrix Editor

Sound Font Viewer

FTable Converter

User-Defined Tools

Other Features

AutoBackup and Recovery

Blue Live

Sound Object Freezing

Auditioning SoundObjects

Program Scripts

Importing ORC/SCO and CSD Files

Importing MIDI Files

Blue Variables

Command Line Options for blue

2. Concepts

Rendering

Introduction

Render Methods

SoundObjects

Introduction

What is a SoundObject?

PolyObjects

Introduction

Basic

Advanced

Best Practices

Debugging

NoteProcessors

SoundObject Library

Introduction

Usage

Parameter Automation

Introduction

Available Parameters

Assigning Parameters

Score Timeline Modes

Editing Automations

Technical Details

Command Blocks

Introduction

Basic Usage

Available Commands

3. Tasks

Add Sound Files to Your Project

Create Encapsulated Instruments

Best Practices Common to All Instruments

Best Practices for BlueSynthBuilder

4. Reference

Sound Objects

AudioFile

CeciliaModule

Comment

External SoundObject

GenericScore

Instance

JMask

LineObject

ObjectBuilder

PatternObject

PianoRoll

PolyObject

PythonObject

RhinoObject

Sound SoundObject

Tracker

ZakLineObject

NoteProcessors

Add Processor

Equals Processor

Inversion Processor

LineAdd Processor

LineMultiply Processor

Multiply Processor

Pch Add Processor

Pch Inversion Processor

Python Processor

Random Add Processor

Random Multiply Processor

Retrograde Processor

Rotate Processor

SubList Processor

Switch Processor

Time Warp Processor

Tuning Processor

Instruments

Generic Instrument

Python Instrument

Rhino Instrument

blueX7

BlueSynthBuilder

Shortcuts

5. Best Practices

Introduction

Encapsulate your instruments

A. Introduction to Csound

B. Breaks in Backwards Compatibility

C. Glossary

Glossary

II. Tutorials

Your First Project

Tutorial 1

Introduction

Why Use Scripting?

Scripting and blue

External SoundObject

Python SoundObject

Using Python with the External SoundObject versus the Python SoundObject

Usage

Usage Ideas

Future Enhancements

Final Thoughts

Tutorial 2

Introduction

How to Use the Sound SoundObject

What Happens When It Gets Processed

Usage Scenarios and Patterns

Final Thoughts

III. Developers

6. Plugins

Note Processors

Instruments

Sound Objects

7. Core

Building blue

Requirements

Getting the Sources

Maintaining a Version of blue from CVS