Bill DeWitt writes:


>I am hoping for some reality checking from the list.

[snip]

Here's my reality:

MIDI is good when the music you are trying to make falls within certain
boundarys - some people's musical boundarys are defined within the same
paradigm that MIDI was designed within. To a large extent MIDI actually
defines the boundarys certain musical styles.

Now take the above paragraph and replace "MIDI" with "Csound".

Similar things could also be said for common music notation.

I think Csound excells when it is used as a tool within a compositional
method. It's great for making and processing sounds, but there are often
better ways of assembling these sounds into complete compositions than by
creating complex .sco files. Unless you're a Csound purist it's best to use
the tool that best suits your goals.

Ross.
(for real-time audio improvisation check out my shareware synth:
http://www.audiomulch.com/)