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blue is a free and open source Csound composer app and audio/video editor, developed by Steven Yi for Windows.
The download has been tested by an editor here on a PC and a list of features has been compiled; see below.
Open and free software for music composition
blue was created as a music composition environment that should be used with the Csound sound system.
blue is written in Java and comes with an interface that resembles a digital multitrack, but differs in that there are timelines within timelines.
Features of blue
- BlueLive - work with soundObjects in realtime to experiment with musical ideas or performance.
- Microtonal PianoRoll allows editing notes using any Scala scale.
- NoteProcessors allow for modifying the soundObjects properties, i.e. adding 2 to all p4 values, multiplying all p5 values by 6, etc.
- Polyobject are objects which hold other soundObjects and have timelines in themselves. working within them on their timelines and outside of them on the parent timeline help organize and understand the concepts of objective time and relative time between different objects.
- SoundObject freezing - free up CPU cycles by pre-rendering objects.
- SoundObjects are the building blocks within blue's score timeline. soundObjects can be lists of notes, algorithmic generators, python script code, csound instrument definitions and whatever plugins that are developed for blue. these soundObjects may be text based, but they can be completely GUI based as well.
- Syntax hilighting of csound language.
- The orchestra manager organizes csound instruments and functions as an instrument librarian. you can selectively choose what instruments to output to the generated csound .csd file, so you can feel free to keep all of your instruments in a large library and output only the ones you need, cutting down on load time for csound.
- The soundOject library allow for instantiating multiple copies of a soundobject, which allows for editting the original object and updating all copies.
- Timeline allows for visual organization of soundObjects.
- Use of scripting for user extensibility.
Compatibility and License
blue has been released under the open source GPL license on Windows from audio and video editors. The license provides the options to freely download, install, run and share this program without any restrictions. The source code for blue should be freely available and modifications are certainly permitted as well as the option to inspect the software.
What version of Windows can blue run on?
blue can be used on a computer running Windows 11 or Windows 10. Previous versions of the OS shouldn't be a problem with Windows 8 and Windows 7 having been tested. It runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems with no dedicated 64-bit download provided.
Filed under:
- blue Download
- Free Audio and Video Editors
- Open source and GPL software
- Csound Composing Software
