Hello,
	I'm completely new to CSOUND as well as this list.  Im allready 
confused with this passage in the PDF manual.
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he Public Csound Reference Manual 1:1 Version 3.54
"1 PREFACE TO THE CSOUND MANUAL
by Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab"

"The instruments in a Csound orchestra (.orc) are defined in a simple syntax 
that invokes complex
audio processing routines. A score (.sco)passed to this orchestra contains 
numerically coded
pitch and control information, in standard numeric score format.

 Although many users are
content with this format, higher level score processing languages are often 
convenient."

What higher launguages? 
I thought  CSOUND would be pretty   darn   good!

Can someone please inform me what CSOUND is and is not capable of?
Maybe I should just keep reading...

Thank You

John

>"The instruments in a Csound orchestra (.orc) are defined in a simple syntax 
>that invokes complex
>audio processing routines. A score (.sco)passed to this orchestra contains 
>numerically coded
>pitch and control information, in standard numeric score format.
>
> Although many users are
>content with this format, higher level score processing languages are often 
>convenient."
>
>What higher launguages? 
>I thought  CSOUND would be pretty   darn   good!
>
>Can someone please inform me what CSOUND is and is not capable of?

	This is referring to the syntax that the score files must be written in,
not anything about what Csound can do.  The heart of what you do in Csound
is really the orchestra files & what's in there would be what you would
call a higher language I guess.  The orchestras have all the information
about how the sounds will be created & scores are just a list of when &
with what parameter settings those sounds will occur.  That listing method
is sort of awkward, so some some prefer "higher languages" to generate
those lists for them.