Hi Iain,

Just to note, even if you do want to use blue, besides the Csound
score work you can do with the builtin objects, you can still use
Cmask, pmask, nGen, your Makescore tool, CommonMusic, and any
commandline operated score generation program within blue using the
External SoundObject. (Stephane Boussuge puts to great use of Common
Music and CMask within the same piece in his "Vitrail").  You can even
create your own GUI SoundObjects with ObjectBuilder, designing UI's
visually to work with external score generation programs (there is an
example that comes with blue that shows using a UI with knobs to
control parameters to be used with CMask, i.e. control the starting
and ending density of a granular cloud by twiddling knobs). So blue
plays well with others' music-making tools too! =)

steven


On 3/24/06, Iain Duncan <iainduncan@telus.net> wrote:
> > Another not too humble optionion (mine) suggests that working with scores in
> > CSound natively is a pain. Blue offers a few options and enhancements that
> > can make cyclical edit and listen quite a bit less painful. So if you are
> > actually composing in CSound and not just making interesting sounds to put
> > in your DAW, it has merit. I have done it both ways, and I am leaning more
> > toward doing everything in Blue / CSound.
>
> This is true, but there are many other score generating tools too, so
> even if you don't want to use blue, you don't have to type scores note
> by note. Cmask, pmask, midi2score, etc. Even I made one! (
> www.xornot.com ) ;)
>
> Iain
>
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