Hi Chris,

While blue contain many features, you can really scale your usage
however you like.  If you wanted to just do normal csound coding
without using any of the editors, you could just do all coding in the
global orc and sco areas, and you could still take advantage of the
syntax-highlighting, code snippets, opcode help, and other features
which are strictly for Csound coding.  From there, if you wanted to
use more of blue, you always can scale up to however much you'd like. 
Also, blue supports rendering to disk and playing the file within blue
using it's soundfile player, all with one keystroke (ctrl-F9).

steven


On 4/30/06, Chris Share <cshare01@qub.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning on doing some things with Csound5 on Windows and was
> looking for a front-end to use. I've been away from the world of Csound
> for a while so I just wanted to check on the status and features of the
> various front-ends. I'm particularly looking for something that can
> render files and also play back the rendered audio so that I don't have
> to swap programs constantly.
>
>  From what I can see, the following are no longer being developed for
> Windows:
>
> WinXoundPro
> CSEdit
> Cecilia
>
> That leaves the following:
>
> Lettuce
> Blue
> Cabel
> Winsound
>
> Blue seems like a bit of overkill for what I'm currently doing (just
> some simple things to get started), and Winsound isn't quite ready yet
> (?). Lettuce can't play back audio files and Cabel doesn't have a
> built-in editor.
>
> Is that right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
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