Richard,


Perhaps you ought to be a bit more nuanced in your approach to this
business. Specially when it comes to what you consider to be expressive,
musically and otherwise. There are many composers on this list who are
involved in things you seem to have no interest in and little knowledge
of. If you dont like Csound, dont use it. And, no, Csound is not going
to change radically. Its too big a job and it is not worth it. As it is,
*many* composers use it on a daily basis and are quite happy to have it
(I have used nothing else in the past five years). As far as I know, and
I have been on this list since one of my students started it, noboby has
ever claimed that Csound is completely general. It is not. It is an
audio processing system first and foremost. Traditional music scoring is
not one of its strengths.

Now, if you believe that timestretching a sample on an Akai sampler
gives you a better result than using a little imagination with table
procedures or any number of frequency-domain procedures, then you should
do just that. Csound (or CLM or SuperCollider or CMIX or other
non-commercial software) is not meant for the 5-minute attention span.

Please do not consider your personal views as the only ones that matter.
If you are so passionate on improving Csound, lets see the work you have
done towards that. Whinning does not count.



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Jean Piche
Universite de Montreal
http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~pichej
http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/Org/CompoElectro/CEC/