The second release of the Csound FLOSS Manual is finally out at www.flossmanuals.net/csound. These are some news to the first version: new chapters. chapters now completed etc. See more details in http://en.flossmanuals.net/csound/on-this-release.
Thanks to all the contributors and supporters!
Joachim Heintz & Iain McCurdy

Boulanger Labs is proud to introduce our first iPad app based on Csound5 - "csGrain".

Built for the iPad2/3 and built on the new "Csound for iOS" SDK by Steven Yi and Victor Lazzarini, the app was approved by the App Store at Apple last week and has been receving extremely positive reviews. (It was one of the top 10 iPad Music Apps for the first three days after it's release! Somebody is loving Csound out there.)

You can find out more about the app, watch the demo videos, listen to some of the demo audio, read the manual, and check out the single .csd that is running under the hood @

http://boulangerlabs.com/.

Hi All,

I've released a new version of blue, available at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

This release contains a new version of blueLive that allows enabling
of multiple soundObjects, triggering single as well as enabled
soundObjects, organization into bins and rows, as well as repeated
triggering of soundObjects according to tempo and repeat length in
beats. Some of this was inspired by Ableton Live and FL Studio's live
clip workflow, though the implementation is a little different from
either of them. This is really just the first steps in the redesign
of blueLive; I had to stop here as this release also has an urgent bug
fix (I will be retracting 2.1.10 from SourceForge). All users using
2.1.10 are recommended to upgrade.

The blueLive feature will continue to develop, with plans to create
SoundObject sets that one can toggle between. Ultimately, when
pattern layers are introduced two releases from now (2.4.0), there
will be interactions introduced between them and blueLive to allow
recording of selected patch sets to pattern layers. This is a work in
progress though, and feedback is greatly appreciated.

I will be updating documentation on blue's wiki for blueLive tomorrow.
I also plan to record a quick video demonstrating the feature, and
will share here when complete.

ChangeLog is below. Thanks!

Steven

Hi All,

I've released a new version of blue, available at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

ChangeLog is below. Thanks!

Steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.10<
[released 2012.02.27]

NEW

* New 0dbfs field in project properties for Disk and Realtime render settings;
Checkbox enables if 0dbfs will be used. If older projects are found that have
0dbfs set in their Global Orchestra, it will be parsed and the field set in
the project, and the old line removed from Global Orchestra. Program settings
added to set defaults for projects (if using 0dbfs and what default value).

* Added Brian Wong's "Syzygyr" piece to the examples/pieces/brianWong folder

* Added Dave Seidel's "Drift Study III" and "Ansible Cathedral" pieces to the
examples/pieces/daveSeidel folder

* Added Csound API Warmup Task to prevent first time load pause when rendering

* Added Full Screen support on Mac OSX Lion

* Added "Disable Displays" option to Realtime and Disk render program options,
defaults to true; adds "-d" to commandline used when rendering project

* Reinstated printing of commandline used when rendering, now outputs to Output
Window of render

Updated

* Worked on updating look and feel

* RFE 3473214: Made Text fields that show values in BSB HSlider and VSlider
clickable and editable, as found previous in BSBKnob. Applies to HSliderBank
and VSliderBank as well.

INTERNAL

* modified to use CsoundMYFLTArray instead of Csound.SetChannel() to optimize
setting channel values (avoid cost of ptr lookup by name on each change)

* removed use of Rhino Javascript interpreter and instead use Java 6's scripting
engine and built-in Javascript interpreter (removes a dependency and saves
size)

Thanks to the new csound parser (standard now in Csound 5.16) I can provide a much simpler version of my Stray collection. They can be useful for working with filenames or any collection of strings and/or numbers. If a Stray consists of numbers, it can be converted to a function table via StrayNumToFt. The UDOs can be found at www.joachimheintz.de/soft/Strays.zip (examples included). More examples and a complete documentation are in the UDO repository (www.csounds.com/udo > Utilities).

Csound 5.16 sources are on SourceForge

quote:

Today, 6 February, is the 60th anniversary of the accession of
Elizabeth Windsor to the crowns of United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland, Dominion of Canada, etc., the 60th anniversary of the
boiler bursting at my primary school, the 92nd anniversary of my
mother's birth, and the release date of Csound 5.16

 Sources are on Sourceforge, and binary packages will follow soon.

==John ffitch

Hi All,

We are happy to announce the Winter 2012 Issue of "Csound Journal" is now available. You can read online or download at:

http://www.csounds.com/journal/

Many thanks to the authors for submitting their wonderful articles! We hope you enjoy reading this issue as much as we did!

Jim Hearon and Steven Yi

We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.15.  The sources
are on the standard Sourceforge location
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/csound/files/csound5/csound5.15/)
as both zip and tar.gz

Platform packages will follow shortly, and the manual on Friday.
==John ffitch
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Notes for 5.15
==============

New parser has been subjected to a great deal of work.  It now has
better checking of argument types and use, better diagnostics and
increased functionality.  We have only reached this stage in the last
few days so we judge it prudent to leave the old parser as standard.
We would be pleased if more users tried the new and gave the
developers feedback.

A major reorganisation means that there are many fewer plugins and
most opcodes are in the base (about 1250 of them).  A side effect of
that is that leaving old plugins from an earlier release is a
disaster, and so 5.15 will not load earlier plugins.

The multicore system is now safe (ie maintains semantics) when zak,
channels or table modification are made.

New Opcodes:

A new version of Csound - version 5.14 - is out, but there is still work to be done on the Csound manual. The announcement of the latest beta version of the manual fell of the front page and therefor it got lost somewhat, but by making this new announcement it is right back again on the front page.
Those interested in the latest Csound manual can check it out.

This beta version of the Csound manual can be viewed here: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/csound_betamanual/manual_Xmas
Or it can be downloaded: http://members.home.nl/mag.knevel/manual_Xmas.zip
The beta manual will be updated regularly.

Hi All,

I've released a new version of blue, available at:

http://blue.kunstmusik.com

ChangeLog is below. Thanks!

Steven

[CHANGE LOG]

>Notes for 2.1.8<
[released 2011.11.19]

UPDATED

* Render Time Pointer Animation code redesigned for smoother playback, made
default Playback Setting option for Frames Per Second default to 24 fps

* OSX - Removed use of -D32 flag when running blue, now will default to whatever
version of Java the user has set by default (64-bit, 32-bit)

* BSB - Made Checkboxes Automatable [RFE 3419780]

FIX

* OSX - Opening sub-popup menus would cause an exception to be thrown, caused by
changes in 2.1.7 to get the System Menu Bar working in blue