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Rick Taube's Lisp-based Common Music is the absolute best event
processor/score language around. It's a quite remarkable achievement.
Anyone using Csound who wants a high-level programming language for making
scores should take the time to learn it. Common Music can output csound
note lists, midifiles, and a number of other formats for other synthesis
and sound processing programs (CLM, CMix, RT...). It's great as a tool for
composing "acoustic" music as well if you're into using computers as an
aid to composition in general.
Richard Karpen
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul Winkler wrote:
> Job van Zuijlen wrote:
> (snip)
> > My main complaint would be about the score language, which seems to view
> > a score is a series of events ordered in time. Some MIDI sequencers let
> > you do interesting things with repeating patterns, which could be of
> > different length (Logic Notator lets you do that, for example). Have
> > others felt those limitations and found a solution?
>
> It's too early for me to say if it's a "solution" yet, at least for me,
> but I'm very optimistic about a score-manipulating "language" I've just
> started developing in Perl. Perl seems born for the task of manipulating
> csound files-- after all, they're just plain text!
>
> When I get something usable & interesting to work, I'll announce it on
> the list. It will, of course, be built around MY idiosyncratic wishes,
> but it'll be released under the GNU public license, so that shouldn't be
> a problem. :)
>
> Thanks to Eric Lyon for suggesting this route to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> PW
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