La siguiente nota es una curiosidad sobre el desarrollo de Csound y en parte lo que veníamos comentando con Andres Cabrera.
> > I got Max's book, and it answers my questions: there were no > > real differences between music 4 and 5 (the latter tried to avoid > > machine code, instruments and note lists could occur in the > > same file, and the input syntax was lightened up a bit). > > Umm...sort of. In Music IV the orchestra is entirely in Fortran. > There's no instrument definition language per se. Each "instrument" > needs separately-callable initialization and execution routines. The > unit generators are simply function calls. State has to be managed > explicitly by the user. > > What does Music 5 do about user-processing of the note lists? Music IV > provides entries for user-written routines that get called after the > input pass (Pass 1) and the sorting pass (Pass 2). > > A lot of what gave Music IV its kick was having the unit generators > written in assembler. They were surprisingly easy to write IIRC. They > were the introduction to 360 assembler for a number of us. What a > precious skill *that* turned out to be... > _______________________________________________ ____ _ _ ___ _ _ ____ ___ ___ |___ \/ |__] \_/ |___ / |__] |___ _/\_ | | |___ /__ | Expyezp mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slow.tk/listinfo.cgi/expyezp-slow.tk
