Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO

[victor]

Perhaps you are referring to the language rather than the
API, when you say it is ghastly. The API is quite neat.
I don't have any problems with the language, but some 
people don't like it.

Perhaps you might be interested in looking at the things 
I am doing to integrate Csound to Sugar a bit more. If
so, drop me a note.

Victor

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb at cesmail.net>
To: "Albert Cahalan" <acahalan at gmail.com>
Cc: "victor" <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie>; <devel at lists.laptop.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: Why can't i access /dev/dsp or /dev/snd on my XO


> Albert Cahalan wrote:
>> On Jan 19, 2008 4:33 PM, victor <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
>> 
>>> I can't speak for TamTam because I am not involved in their
>>> design details, but I can say this, Csound's standard score
>>> preceeds MIDI by at least a decade (or two if you consider where
>>> it came from). It is much more flexible to convey musical data
>>> than MIDI. There are MIDI to csound score converters, but
>>> that is beside the point, because Csound can play MIDI files
>>> directly, receive realtime MIDI data and even output it.
>>> There is no problem whatsoever, with the proper instruments,
>>> Csound will be a MIDI synthesizer like any other. The main
>>> thing is, that it is not limited to it (thank goodness...).
>> 
>> How about showing some support for standards by
>> dropping the non-standard stuff? You can #ifdef it.
>> Maybe you can even save a few bytes.
>> 
>> If you really must, you can embed the non-standard
>> stuff into a MIDI file. It's better to avoid non-standard
>> stuff entirely of course, and any extended MIDI file
>> had better play decently on a standard MIDI player.
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> 
> One of the main reasons I got an XO was because it has CSound. It's a
> ghastly API, but it's been around for years and there are thousands of
> working instruments! There's a huge book on it, and I doubt very
> seriously if anyone will ever come up with a digital sound analysis and
> synthesis tool set as comprehensive without investing a lot of effort
> re-inventing a bunch of wheels, levers, inclined planes and such.
> 
> By the way -- I've been meaning to check to see if this is in Trac, but
> the csound-manual and csound-tutorial RPMs in the repository appear to
> be empty. I can install them, but there isn't anything on the machine
> after I do.
> 
> I'm also attempting to get some of the Planet CCRMA software loaded on
> the system. At this point, all I really want is Common Music -- I don't
> need another synthesizer since I have CSound, and I don't need a music
> notation program. If anyone else has already done this, I'd love to hear
> about it.