Csound Timbral Textures Within the IEEE MX Environment

This paper deals with a new approach for the manipulation of timbres through the interaction between Csound and MX. Csound score information can be entirely derived from the symbolic MX code. Therefore, the association between Csound timbres and particular sounds can be managed in a single frame. All the different subjects are univocally linked in a reference structure. This approach supports all the instruments required by Csound. For example, in an MX file we can find a number of MIDI files related to the current score. Therefore, Csound can interact with these MIDI files. Also real time MIDI controls are manipulated through MX and Csound interaction and the most important analysis and resynthesis methods are supported as well in this approach thanks to the management of the audio files included in MX.