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