If you are talking about environments from which to edit Csound files and run Csound, others know more. If you are talking about algorithmic composition systems that use Csound (some of which also provide environments from which to edit Csound files and run Csound), investigate:

blue
athenaCL
GraceCL with Csound port
Mondrian
CsoundAC 

You can find them by googling for "blue csound", "athenaCL", "GraceCL", or "Mondrian". CsoundAC already comes with Csound.

There are other algorithmic composition environments for Csound -- these are just the ones that I know a little bit about. I am the author of CsoundAC.

Hope this helps,
Mike

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>hi everybody
>first post here in csound mailing list...
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>i just want to know which is in your opinion the best external tool for
>writing text to control csound...with editor for music notation...up to now
>i just know something about Ircam Open Music but i want to know if there's
>something better documented or more powerful...
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>thanx everybody
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