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- Dear Peruser-
-
- In this directory are two files containing the CARL software distribution for
- Sparc stations and for the NeXT computer. Both have been compressed with gzip.
- When uncompressed with, say, gunzip, they each become MUCH larger tar files
- containing many directories, subdirectories and files containing all the
- sources and documentation for CARL software as it has been ported to the Sun
- Sparc and NeXT platforms.
-
- The Sparc version contains a more-or-less full port of the CARL software (and
- requires a Fortran compiler to properly install).
-
- The NeXT version contains a partial port of the CARL software, including the
- cmusic program (modified slightly to know about NeXT .snd files) and the pv
- phase vocoder program (fully described in my book Elements of Computer Music).
- The NeXT version of cmusic is essentially the same as the "classical" one
- except that it includes a new "-f" flag, as in the command
-
- cmusic -f score.sc
-
- which causes cmusic to directly create a soundfile called "score.snd"
- (corresponding to the scorefile name) rather than requiring the usual pipe to
- another program which writes sound files to disk (the one for the NeXT platform
- is called "tosnd" and is included).
-
- These programs were written principally by me and Gareth Loy over the past 15
- years or so, with contributions from Mark Dolson (pvoc) and others. The
- software distribution contains much (though often somewhat out-of-date)
- documentation. The best source of information on cmusic and the pv programs is
- my book Elements of Computer Music (be sure to obtain the third printing (the
- Library of Congress page says "10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3") which contains corrections of
- hundreds of errata as compared with earlier printings (this printing was done
- in early 1994). For other software the included documentation (man pages, help
- files, etc.) is largely correct.
-
- Good luck!
-
- -F Richard Moore
- Professor of Music
- University of California, San Diego
- frm@ucsd.edu
-