Hello!

First, I want to thank you all so much for giving me some great places to
start!  I'm kinda just plunging in, looking at all the various aspects of
creating music on a computer and you guys are helping me to know what a
great pool it is to be in.  The command line thing was what was hanging me
up before with cSoundVST, so now I'll study up on how to do that.  Which is
the flag for real-time output?  I'd like to hear it right away, instead of
having to go find the resultant wav file and play it in a seperate program -
if it is possible.

Quick question - is there anything I can do to keep my computer from being
confused about the sco files?  I have Sibelius, and it sometimes knows that
they are cSound score files, and other times it thinks they are Sibelius
Scorch files.  It looks like .sco is the same extension for both...maybe
there is nothing I can do, except open whichever program first and then open
the actual file I want instead of double clicking on the file in My
Documents.

Do you all think it might be helpful for me to take my understanding of
written musical notation to score files by writing out in csound some
well-known public domain melodies (I'll probably use church hymns), using
whatever basic sine wave I make in an orchestra file?   Or would that be
counter-productive?

Thanks again for your help!
Christine