I'm glad to announce the release of the package temporal-csound [1] This package joins the forces of the packages temporal-music-notation and csound-expression. The former package gives you handy primitives to arrange the events in sequences (like parallel or sequential composition, the tempo change, standard names for notes and durations) and the later is used for creation of musical timbres or software synthesizers.
This library defines standard note representation that let's you invoke csound instruments with notes defined in the package temporal-music-notation. Also this library provides you with some cool instruments to try the things out. Library strives to be very simple. For example, to trigger the instrument with virtual midi-device is as simple as (in ghci with loaded modules Csoundand Csound.Patch) ~~~ Csound Csound.Patch> vdac $ mul 0.2 $ largeHall $ onMidi stringPad ~~~ If you have a connected hardware midi-device you can just type: ~~~ Csound Csound.Patch> dac $ mul 0.2 $ largeHall $ onMidi stringPad ~~~ And you are ready to go. To play a C-major chord just do: ~~~ Csound Csound.Patch> dac $ mul 0.2 $ magicCave $ mix $ notes vibraphone2 $ mel [c, e, g, high c, rest 15] ~~~ To use this library you need to install the csound compiler [2]. It renders the Csound files to wav-files or real-time performance. WARNING: the library works best within ghci. The real-time sound rendering function dac spawns a child process in the background which may continue to execute after you stop the main process that runs the programm. It's not so in vim but it happens in the Sublime Editor and when you invoke runhaskell. So the best is to write you program in the separate file and then load it in the ghci and invoke the function main (which runs the sound rendering with the function dac). [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/temporal-csound-0.3.0 [2] http://www.csounds.com/resources/downloads/ Cheers, Anton
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