Some personal notes

Some personal confused notes about csound world.

First of all: please i don't know english well and i'll try to explain my thought as better as possible for me. Hope it will be intelligible.

Also note that i am a really beginner, without knowledge in computer system, and then please apologize some stupid question.


-1 Is it possible to have, at least on windows, a default setting for RTaudio that allows to hear all examples without clicks or stepper play ? This without regards to latency (but to quality yes), only for the first times that one run csound. After, when user will be more confident with system, he will be able to find his better audio settings.
This is because some times i try an examples (always in RT, i want to hear immediatly the result!) and i hear a fragmented sound.
Maybe it is possible to have some differents .csoundrc files with differents names and settings, i.e. for RTaudio out only, RT audio in and out (then latency), only midi setup, audio and midi, etc.

-2 It would be possible to have a folder with many of the existing resources, manual, Gogins tutorial, Dr. B. tootorial, and, if not all other resources at least a link list, to scanned synt. tutorial, csound journal, csound magazine, etc. There are many beautiful resources but more scattered. (i see that it's yet at work).

-3 There are some opcodes for file info (filelen, ..., ftlen, ...). Is it possible to have a single opcode that give all info like different argument and then one use that he needs ? Ex. file(sr) return sr, file(len) return len, ...

-4 are all opcodes really necessary ? For example, to play an audio file there are many opcodes, are they all necessary ? It seems that diskin not work so well (sometimes), and there is diskin2. Why don't replace diskin with diskin2 without changing name?

-5 Not a news, but some examples needs some work. And i think that all opcodes must have almost one example, better at least two, one very basic, and one more like music (for examples, fof and partikkel have really good testing csd). Random family opcodes must display both result with different seeds (i.e. like examples are now, every time are running display same result, but if seed is 0 every time a different series of value).

-6 With regards at Gui, i think qutecsound (that i don't use yet) is perfect. But a simple editor like scite, for who, like me (maybe only other five people...), would work with python too in a simple way (at least at begin), integrated in distribution and with all right settings, is it possible ?

-7 I see that csounds.com is not so frequented, but it is first reference for beginners. Sometimes there are just few people (last month only one!) that reply to help request. And also it is not so clear that there is this list.

-8 "i'm just a poor (seasoned) boy". Now, i think that it's necessary a new Csound book, updated. At one time it will be foundamental for more in deep study, and it's the only possibilities that some people, like me, have to sustain You materially (yes only a microscopic drop, but better many little than nothing).

-9 i've found some really interesting and beautiful music made with csound, and, when possible, i've buyed some of those, but it was a long research. Is it possible to have a page on csounds.com with links to music (free and not free) ? Also, i've read somewhere that csound is been used by many people in many different way/applications. Who, where, for what ? It will be interesting to known! And, but this is really a personal wish, with music it will be wonderful to have csd files too, also when published in commercial cd.
(Many links to people, in csounds.com, are broken/outdate).

Hope not so much boring,

always thanks for Your work,
ciao,

fran.