
                                                ACCCI v1.1,  June 1995






       W E L C O M E

          to the

             Amsterdam
            C Catalogue of
           C   Csound
          C     Computer
         I       Instruments

                                                  (c) J.-P. Gather, 1995




Contents
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The ACCCI includes approximately 100 documented SWSS instruments, amongst
which all of Risset's 25 Bell Lab Catalogue instruments and ca. 75 other
instruments focussing on various aspects of Software Sound Synthesis (SWSS).
All instruments have been programmed adopting one style, with strong emphasis
on documentation and transparency.  The corpus of instruments is systematically
subdivided into a hierarchy of main groups and subgroups according to synthesis
technique or topic.


Internet Version of the ACCCI
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This is the chopped-up version of a printed catalogue (see below), ported to 
different computing environments. It is destined to facilitate study on sound 
synthesis, in particular for those people who are in posession of a book 
version of my catalogue and for all other students and amateurs of Software 
Sound Synthesis.  All programs are ready to run with the SWSS package Csound. 

I have included discussions and flowcharts of the ACCCI book version in this 
distribution.  The graphics are in Encapsulated Postscript format (.eps files)
and can be printed or viewed on any device capable of understanding the 
Postscript language.  By printing out all information, it is possible to
obtain an 'open' version of the ACCCI.  This is desirable for those persons 
who wish to use my catalogue as a basis for further investigations, thus 
enabling them to insert their own documented instruments at the appropriate 
place in the catalogue.  Thus the ACCCI would bring forth local variants 
of growing complexity and wealth.  The introduction in the subdirectory
'TEXT' contains specifics on the organization of the catalogue.



Book Version of the ACCCI
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You can purchase a book version of the catalogue.  Great care has been taken 
to present all information pertaining to particular instruments at a glance: 
orchestras, scores, flowcharts and discussions on adjacent pages.  Contact 
the author for more information.

   
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Author:   John P Gather          
          Department of Music
          University at Buffalo, SUNY
          222 Baird Hall
          Buffalo 14260 NY,  USA

          email:   jpgather@acsu.buffalo.edu    Subject: ACCCI
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Updates
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Given the nature of its evolving subject matter, this catalogue has to be, 
in principle, a work-in-progress.  In future versions, I wish to include 
many more instruments.  A lot of work remains to be done.  


Enjoy.

