> 	So my question would be, should I give up on CSound and just use CakeWalk?

Hi Bill,

What about using Csound as MIDI-Synthesizer ? That's what I am doing, and
it's working quite good. So you don't have to fiddle with csound's score
language. But for good realtime response, you should have 2 computers,
one (the slower one) running CakeWalk (i.e.), and one running csound (I'm using a
PentiumII/350MHz for that and it's fast enough), and you then connect the
two with a MIDI cable. I also bought a Kawai K6000 MIDI controller box with
16 knobs. As you can read out the controller values with csound, you can
modify the sounds in realtime, just like with an Analog Synthesizer (cooool..)