Dear all,

I am new to this mailing list.  I just took part in it today!  So if the question here has been asked by someone else before, please forgive me.

What I would like to know is why we choose Csound.  As far as I know, Csound is a synthesis language.  It can really make a lot of sounds that do not exist in the world.  But don't you think synthesisers and samplers are great enough to realize it?  So why Csound?  Could someone out there give me some advice so that I will be clear about it?

Thanks for your bandwidth.

Regards
Kay


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Hi, all!

	My two cents:

	Ok, there are a lot of great synths and samplers today (all out of
my student money :-( ), but if you look carefully you find that all lacks
something..." that synth have this really good lead, but you have only
ADSR envelops. This have a 8 stage envelop but only two oscilators..." and
the list goes... The Csound can give you the best from all synths, and
more!  Of course you have to give up realtime performance (at least), and
yoy have to spend some time to figure how things works (anyway, if you
have a good synth, you will have to spend time to learn how to use it
too).
	IMO, flexibility (and power) is what Csound is all about! You can
do (almost?) everything with it! And Csound can upgrade like no hardware
synth can!  DO you know any synth that can do granular synthesis?

	Thanks for your attention!


	Christian Lyra