Where to get csound(freeware??)

[brad sanders]

"Rob01" <cyborg0 at midwest.net> was saying...

Csound (as in the AD development kit) is not freeware. It is a
development tool, and like most development tools it is intended for
sale to folks who will write off the expense as NRE (that's "non
recurring expenses"). Last price I saw was $1495.00

Is this related to the "csound" freeware on the 'net? I dunno. The AD
package looks to me more like the object oriented "DSP cad" type
software designed long ago by the now defunct STAR semiconductor for
use with their SPROC chips.

>So, Paul, are you saying that the SHARC is programmable via Csound???

ANY DSP (or even an intel box for that matter) can be programmed in
any language - all that's needed is a compiler.

>....elaborate please, i only know
>the very iota of DSP theory, would it be too much to ask how DSPs are
>implemented, perhaps a little primer, like exactly HOW the lookup tables
>work, etc.......but , i dont know very much, just being a little ticky tak
> electronics tech with minimal ASM and no REAL DSP
>experience..i never coded a DSP....

>instructors here at SIU like to say they have a DSP class, but mainly all
>they make you do is C programming, and id rather NOT waste my time and
>money...My buddy didnt even SEE a real DSP the whole time in the class :((
>So chances are it will be a LLLOOOONG time before i get any institutional
>training on a DSP.

What did your buddy run compiles on?

DSP is ALGORITHMIC. The hardware is virtually a non-issue. From your
posts here I can tell you have a great deal of enthusiasm - but that
only goes so far, eh? I know this, because I still have a lot to learn
when it comes to DSP.

What prompted me to hit the "reply" key, 'tho, was You saying "I'd
rather not waste my money..."

Seems to me it would only be a WASTE of money if you walked into class
with that attitude. There is a LOT to learn when it comes to DSP - and
the hardware used to do that learning is irrelevant. The reason C is
so widely used is because it's almost a "universal assembly language."
If you can code a module in C, you can rewrite it for anything.

A PC is perfectly capable of doing some pretty serious DSP. Hell,
three years ago I designed a communications gear speech compressor
using a lowly 8 bit PIC microprocessor. If this can do realtime DSP
without even so much as a hardware multiply instruction, you bet yer
butt an intel box can do some fun stuff.

IF you know how the algorithms work, and how to program....

By the way: I'm having a very hard time telling which posts these days
are from "synth-diy" and which are from the "dsp" list. Would it be
too much to ask the list owners to have the list servers put, for
example, "(DIY)" as the first characters in the subject headers? The
motorcyle list I subscribe to does this, and it makes life MUCH mo'
bettah.