CSound

After a wee break (6 months?), I'm back looking at music, this time playing around with CSound. I had looked into it maybe 4 years ago, and was not enthused at the time; it looked way too DIY for where I was then.

After playing with PD last year, I got frustrated with what seemed to me that not too many folks were actually using PD to write music. Graphics, yes. Signal processing, maybe. But I was having trouble finding folks just doing plain, regular music. Seems like CSound has more of that going on, even to the point of having a podcast of MP3s on their front page. And CSound has grown quite a bit in the past several years. Color me new and clueless, but the fact that you need to roll your own reverb in PD was a little scary; CSound has at least a couple reverb opcodes built-in.

So I'm dipping my toe into the CSound world. We'll see what comes of it.