
Antescofo is a coupling of a real-time listening machine with a reactive and timed synchronous language. The language is used for authoring of music pieces involving live musicians and computer processes, and the real-time system assures its correct performance and synchronization despite listening or performance errors.
These pages documents the language starting from version 0.5. Users willing to practice the language are strongly invited to download Antescofo and use the additional Max or PureData tutorials (with example programs) that come with them for a sensible illustration of the language.
Antescofo scores can be edited, visualized and monitored by AscoGraph, a standalone program communicating with the Antescofo engine via OSC messages. See the related Ascograph documentation.
The documentation
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starts with a User Guide including the description of the Antescofo Workflow
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proceeds with a Reference Manual
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and is completed by the description of Library Functions and an Antescofo Cookbook.
These documents are available as online web pages and they are bundled with the Antescofo package in HTML and in a pdf format. Besides these documents, additional information on Antescofo can be found:
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on the Project home page
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on ForumUser where you can find tutorials to download with bundles for MAX and PureData
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on the web site of the MuTAnt team-project where you can find the scientific and technical publications on Antescofo
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on Project Development Forge where you can post a bug report
Your feedback is important. Please, send your comments, typos, bugs reports, use cases, hints, tips and suggestions on the Antescofo ForumUser web pages. It will help us to improve the documentation and the Antescofo system.