There's been a lot of discussion recently about how canonical Csound5
doesn't have a GUI. I want to chime in here.

That does not bother me at all. I don't need a GUI; what I need is a graphic
editor for my Csound .csd's - one that easily runs my work (with csound.exe)
when I'm ready to listen. After all, all Csound.exe does is let you hear
what you've composed. What you may want by way of a GUI, OTOH, is a
*composing environment*.

There are quite a few of these out there, with links at csounds.com; they
are called "front ends." I personally use CsEdit.

Performance GUI's like CsoundAV's do indeed have some nice convenience
features (such as setting latency, environment variables, .wav filenames,
etc.) but in most cases are quite unnecessary.

Rather, find yourself a comfortable (for you and your way of composing)
"front end."

Just my opinion.

Art Hunkins

----- Original Message -----
From: "Istvan Varga" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Csnd] Newcomer's Questions


> On Monday 27 February 2006 15:43, Wally Lepore wrote:
>
> > different versions. I assume Winsound 64 is for use with 64 bit
operating
> > systems. Someone please correct me if I am wrong).
>
> The '64' in the name means 64 bit internal resolution of sound samples
(i.e.
> somewhat better quality and accuracy at the expense of increased memory
usage).
> There is no Winsound specifically for 64 bit operating systems.
>
> > It seems that Csound5 is going to be (or already is) the standard soon
>
> It is the standard considering that it was already released, but that of
> course does not mean that everyone has switched immediately.
>
> > Presently Csound5 has a command line version (DOS) and a beta version of
the
> > graphical front end.
>
> The command line version is not a DOS program. It is a 32 bit Windows
> application with full support for real time audio, MIDI, FLTK displays and
> widget opcodes, and more. It just does not have a graphical user
interface.
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