I, too, was a loyal user of score11 (which of course, was a port of
Leland smith's original SCORE program). I still miss some familiar
features. But I have found CommonMusic (winner of the first international
computer music software competition, b.t.w.) to be a wonderful
score processor (it even comes with anither very powerful software
synthesis tool CommonLispMusic). It can output MIDI, csound, cmusic & "rt" (on NeXTs), and SGIMix (on SGI)..oh, and a very powerful music typesetting
language "CommonMusicNotation". Oh, and Cmix.
Well, you say, but I have old DOS boxes (my sympathies....).That's ok!
MIDI and csound output have worked in CommonMusic on DOS for a while (correct, Tobias?)! The CommonLisp interpreter/compiler is *in the public domain* (read:free...), and the only commitment you have to make is to learning the new and
pwerful syntax. PLEASE do yourself, and your students a favor:
Investigate CommonMusic! 
You might consider moving those old DOS/Win3.1 boxes to LINUX, since a great
deal of the Computer Music world is going into SGIs, and a great deal of the
SGI based "X windows" dsoftware has and is being ported to LINUX...
not to mention that the O.S. if FREE! 
And anyway, BillGates' O.S. is deeply inferior, and a sad statement as to
the power of capitalist monopolistic activity. 
(Sorry, but I *truely* dislike the WEENDOWS monopoly.G*d , how I hate it!!
Notice how many UNIX tools have been ported to the box SO ONE CAN EVEN BEGIN TO CALL IT A DEVELOPEMNT ENVIROMENT!!!!!) 
Please drop DOS!

OK, rant over...but you should STILL look at the award winning CommonMusic sofware! Even on DOS! and the price is still: free!


CharlieB
http://www.charlieb.com/
baker@ccrma.stanford.edu

On Tue, 20 May 1997, Charles Baker wrote:

> 
> I, too, was a loyal user of score11 (which of course, was a port of
> Leland smith's original SCORE program). I still miss some familiar

	As a current user of both CSound (on LINUX as well as MS
platforms) and the latest version of Leland Smith's SCORE, I am intrigued
by this statement.  I have seen in various texts that SCORE was at one
time a preprocessor for CSound-type programs, but the statement is never
elaborated upon.  Could anyone shed some light on how SCORE can be used as
a CSound pre-processor?  Are there programs that convert SCORE files into
CSound score files?  Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jon Southwood
jdsouth@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu


                               Jon Southwood
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	It's a little bit of a reach but there is a program which turns a
SCORE file into a Standard MIDI file (Score2Midi, I think).  Then the Midi
file could be turned into csound score.  However, this is sure to cause
more headache than its worth, due to the time it would take to tweak all
of the translation mistakes in both processes.

Mike Berry
mikeb@mills.edu
http://www.mills.edu/PEOPLE/gr.pages/mikeb.public.html/mikeb.homepage.html