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From: sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell)
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Re: Csound and synthesis
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Date: 19 Jun 91 13:39:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun18.210901.1@cc.helsinki.fi>, jalkio@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> 
> One question though: Is the best way to incorporate sampled sounds to
> use the GEN1 function generator? (And not the soundin operation in the
> orchestra file.) I have a problem making the samples sound at the
> correct pitch. Has the samplefile to be exactly the same length than the
> table to which I am loading the file? (It's a pity since the table
> length can only be a power of 2 and the samplefiles aren't usually
> exactly that long.)
> 

To import sounds to the CSOUND environment, try using the soundin utility.
It makes the unfortunate requirement that you name the soundfiles you
want to import "soundin.number", as in soundin.1, soundin.2, etc.  To
play the 3-second soundfile soundin.66 in your Csound score, you say

a1 soundin 0.0 3.0 66   (this is from memory, it may be wrong)

However, you cant make any pitch adjustments to this as far as I
know.  You probably need a phase vocorder to do that.  I don't know
if you have the CARL software as well, but it includes a program
called pvoc for this.

-- 
Greg Sandell
sandell@ils.nwu.edu