Tutorials

A beginner's tutorial
Harm Visser’s intro­duc­tion to the usage of gram­mars in Bol Processor …
Time patterns (‘smooth’ time)
A sim­ple gram­mar illus­trat­ing the use of time-patterns in smooth time …
Reference manual (BP2.9.8)
The com­plete ref­er­ence man­u­al for ver­sion 2 of the Bol Processor …
Csound checkup
Checking the asso­ci­a­tion of Bol Processor (BP2 and BP3) with Csound …
Csound objects
The cre­ation of Csound scores based on sound-objects con­tain­ing Csound instruc­tions …
Misc. grammar controls
The fol­low­ing short exam­ples illus­trate the usage of spe­cif­ic con­trols of the infer­ence mech­a­nism in gram­mars of …
Csound tuning in BP3
This page deals with Bol Processor BP3 mak­ing use of an updat­ed ver­sion of Csound orches­tra file …
Continuous parameters in Csound scores
The fol­low­ing are sim­ple exam­ples explain­ing the design of Csound scores con­tain­ing instruc­tions to con­trol para­me­ters that …
Microtonality
On elec­tron­ic instru­ments such as the Bol Processor asso­ci­at­ed with Csound, micro­tonal­i­ty is the mat­ter of “micro­ton­al tun­ing”, here mean­ing the con­struc­tion of musi­cal scales out­side the con­ven­tion­al one(s) …
Just intonation: a general framework
A frame­work for con­struct­ing scales (tun­ing sys­tems) refer­ring to just into­na­tion in both clas­si­cal Indian and Western approach­es …
Raga intonation
This arti­cle demon­strates the the­o­ret­i­cal and prac­ti­cal con­struc­tion of micro­ton­al scales for the into­na­tion of North Indian ragas …
Importing MusicXML scores
Importing MusicXML scores to Bol Processor BP3 …
Polymetric structures
Polymetric expres­sions are the basic rep­re­sen­ta­tion mod­el of musi­cal data in Bol Processor. The word is a …
Flags in grammars
Flags may be used in gram­mars to activate/deactivate rules accord­ing to sim­ple numer­ic and log­ic eval­u­a­tions. Let …
Time resolution and quantization
These para­me­ters are saved in ‘-se’ set­tings files asso­ci­at­ed with gram­mars and data. They are expressed in …

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