[This tutorial is still a draft]

There are two applications available at the moment (that I know of) to do this: mrmr and akaRemote.app. Both are native apps for (jailbroken) iPhone/iPod Touch and both use the OpenSoundControl protocol.

Link [createdigitalmusic.com].

The archive [laptop.org].

Csound 5.08 has just been released.

It contains the opcodes I have developed recently: the image opcodes family - for reading and writing images pixel values, and the jacktransport opcode - which can be used to control (start/stop and relocate) the Jack transport.

I've just got back from Cologne, Germany, where I have attended the Linux Audio Conference 2008. We (me and Marta) have decided to be there at the very last minute, but we're really glad we did it.

Wonderful atmosphere!

Now I feel even more inspired and motivated to keep contributing to this passionate community.

By the way, here are some pictures of the trip.

MzScheme is a first-rate multi-platform open source implementation of the scheme language.

Here is how to call the Csound API from MzScheme using its foreign function interface (which comes with the basic distribution).

I'm helping Dr. Richard Boulanger with the cSounds.com website. We've rebuilt it from scratch using Drupal. Be sure to check it out, make an account and participate!

Recently, I also wrote some opcodes to read and write images (in PNG format) from within Csound. They are in cvs now and will be included in the next stable release (5.08). I've put up a dedicated page where I'll document my future efforts in Csound opcodes development.

Last but not least, three weeks ago I received a XO laptop (a B4 prototype) to test some music-related "activities" I'm developing for the One Laptop Per Child project.

In this tutorial we will see how to make our own MIDI controlled soft synths using some of the various audio programming languages available in the opensourcesphere: Csound, SuperCollider, and Chuck.

For each of these languages, I'll show you a basic template (1 sine oscillator + 1 ADSR) that you can use as a starting point to make more interesting instruments.

I have just released the code I've written so far to use Squeak as a programming environment for creating GUIs for SuperCollider. It is a mere 16KB but I'm already having a lot of fun with it.

You can learn more about this project, and get the source, here.

In the last few days I've been experimenting with making two of my favorite open source programs, Squeak and SuperCollider, work together.