EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Sascha Franck wrote:
> 
> > What about Csound?
> 
> Hm, is that any easy to handle? From what I've seen in the past (admittedly
> not much) there were no proper frontends and such,

I think there are some front ends, but I haven't looked into it.

> it all seemed to be more
> like a "programming geeks" thing to me.

Yeah, it still is. :-(

I learned just enough of it to create stereo sine waves at particular
frequencies (for brainwave entrainment), so it's now ridiculously easy
for me to create, for example, a 30 minute file with a 200Hz sine wave
in the left channel, a 208Hz sine wave in the right, with a 4 second
fade-in and 60 second fade-out. Setting the frequencies and times is
done in a simple text editor. :-)

> But I may be totally wrong. Could
> you point me to a good starting page or so?

http://www.csound.com/

> Seriously, all I want is a signal generator, allowing for the creation of
> "clean" waveforms of all sorts - simple ones and eventually mixed/modulated
> ones.

AFAIK Csound would do that easily (and MUCH more, of course...)

I think sine waves are done with a built-in function generator. If you
like I'll try to suss out what other waveforms it does...