csound won’t

February 8, 2007 · by · in ,

I have a love / hate relationship with open source.  I have OpenOffice and love it, run WordPress and love it, am slowly learning Python, and love it.  But I get frustrated with Csound, and hate it, on a regular basis.  If anyone knows how to get MIDI output to work, let me know.  I have the ‘MIDI’ box checked, and I get blank MIDI files.  It’s pretty cool, let me tell you.

That said, Csound + Python will also, eventually, let me do things like The Random Break Generator (enter 4 to 8 samples and a tempo, and get a two-bar beat in return), and The Random Melody Generator (give it a key and a tempo, and stand back).  Generative music, and especially interactive generative music, makes me all fuzzy inside.