Cecilia(1) General Commands Manual Cecilia(1)NAME
Cecilia - A GUI and programming environment for Csound
SYNOPSIS
cecilia [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
Cecilia is a graphic interface for music composition and signal processing that uses Csound as its audio processing engine. Cecilia is a
completely programmable sound processing tool with realtime interactive processing of soundfiles or live input. It can also be regarded a
software synthesizer with configurable controls.
Cecilia includes the Cybil language for the production of complex Csound scores.
Cecilia provides a completely programmable GUI written in Tcl/Tk. Parameter controls may be designed for interactive input and for dynamic
graphing. The program can also be used as a Csound friendly text editor for the creation of Csound instruments and scores.
OPTIONS
No runtime options are available for this program. cecilia -h will return the options specific to Tcl/Tk.
FILES
Examples and complete HTML documentation can be found in the $CECILIA_HOME/files directory.
BUGS
Report all bugs to the Cecilia mail list at http://cecilia.sourceforge.net.
>From the TODO list for Cecilia 2.0.5 :
Amplitude information is not displayed with Csound versions later than 4.16.
Auto Rename generates soundfiles with an extension incompatible with the play and SoX programs.
The Pvoc Reader window comes up very squashed, needs reasonable default size.
TODO
>From the TODO list for Cecilia 2.0.5 :
- Create complete package for MacOS X
- Merge Windows sources from Bill Beck into CVS
- Use Tcl compiler to create binaries
- Documentation needs to be updated to recent versions of Csound with a new script to generate the reference database from the HTML.
AUTHORS
Cecilia was written by Alexandre Burton and Jean Piche at the University Of Montreal.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) Jean Piche and Alexandre Burton, 1995-98. Licensed under the GNU Public License.
November 2003 Cecilia(1)
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CS(1) The Canonical Csound Reference CS(1)NAME
cs - Starts Csound with a set of options that can be controlled by environment variables, and input and output files determined by the
specified filename stem. .
DESCRIPTION
Starts Csound with a set of options that can be controlled by environment variables, and input and output files determined by the specified
filename stem.
SYNTAX
cs [-OPTIONS] <name> [CSOUND OPTIONS ... ]
INITIALIZATION
Flags:
o - OPTIONS = OPTIONS is a sequence of alphabetic characters that can be used for selecting the Csound executable to be run, as well as
the command line flags (see below). There is a default for the option 'r' (selects real-time output), but it can be overridden.
o <name> = this is the filename stem for selecting input files; it may contain a path. Files that have .csd, .orc, or .sco extension are
searched, and either a CSD or an orc/sco pair that matches <name> the best are selected. MIDI files with a .mid extension are also
searched, and if one that matches <name> at least as close as the CSD or orc/sco pair, it is used with the -F flag.
NOTE
The MIDI file is not used if any -M or -F flag is specified by the user - new in version 4.24.0) Unless there is any option (-n or
-o) related to audio output, an output file name with the appropriate extension is automatically generated (based on the name of
selected input files and format options). The output file is always written to the current directory.
NOTE
file name extensions are not case sensitive.
o [CSOUND OPTIONS ... ] = any number of additional options for Csound that are simply copied to the final command line to be executed.
The command line that is executed is generated from four parts:
1. Csound executable (possibly with options). This is exactly one of the following (the last one has the highest precedence):
o a built-in default
o the value of the CSOUND environment variable
o environment variables with a name in the format of CSOUND_x where x is an uppercase letter selected by characters of the -OPTIONS
string. Thus, if the -dcba option is used, and the environment variables CSOUND_B and CSOUND_C are defined, the value of CSOUND_B
will take effect.
2. Any number of option lists, added in the following order:
o either some built-in defaults, or the value of the CSFLAGS environment variable if it is defined.
o environment variables with a name in the format of CSFLAGS_x where x is an uppercase letter selected by characters of the
-OPTIONS string. Thus, if the -dcba option is used, and the environment variables CSFLAGS_A and CSFLAGS_C are defined as '-M 1
-o dac' and '-m231 -H0', respectively, the string '-m231 -H0 -M 1 -o dac' will be added.
3. The explicit options of [CSOUND OPTIONS ... ].
4. Any options and file names generated from <name>.
NOTE
Quoted options that contain spaces are allowed.
EXAMPLES
Assuming the following environment variables:
CSOUND = csoundfltk.exe -W
CSOUND_D = csound64.exe -J
CSOUND_R = csoundfltk.exe -h
CSFLAGS = -d -m135 -H1 -s
CSFLAGS_D = -f
CSFLAGS_R = -m0 -H0 -o dac1 -M "MIDI Yoke NT: 1" -b 200 -B 6000
And a directory that contains:
foo.orc piano.csd
foo.sco piano.mid
im.csd piano2.mid
ImproSculpt2_share.csd foobar.csd
The following commands will execute as shown:
cs foo => csoundfltk.exe -W -d -m135 -H1 -s -o foo.wav
foo.orc foo.sco
cs foob => csoundfltk.exe -W -d -m135 -H1 -s-o foobar.wav foobar.csd
cs -r imp -i adc => csoundfltk.exe -h -d -m135 -H1 -s -m0 -H0-o dac1 -M "MIDI Yoke NT: 1"
-b 200 -B 6000 -i adc
ImproSculpt2_share.csd
cs -d im => csound64.exe -J -d -m135 -H1 -s -f -o im.sf
im.csd
cs piano => csoundfltk.exe -W -d -m135 -H1 -s-F piano.mid -o piano.wav
piano.csd
cs piano2 => csoundfltk.exe -W -d -m135 -H1 -s-F piano2.mid -o piano2.wav
piano.csd
CREDITS
Author: Istvan Varga
Jan 2003
AUTHORS
Barry Vercoe
MIT Media Lab
Author.
Dan Ellis
MIT Media Lab,
Cambridge
Massachussetts
Author.
COPYRIGHT 5.07 06/23/2009 CS(1)