Hi Jan,

     I have been using Excel as a score editor for Csound for over a year
with great results. The versatility and power of Excel are perfect for
simplification of many otherwise mundane and time-consuming scoring
activities. Here is what I do:

1.) Save all .sco files as text (tab delimited) .txt
2.) When  opening a .sco file, select the file, in step one of the Text
Import Wizard, select the delimited radial button. In step two, check both
tab and space in the delimiters section and  "  as your text qualifier. Then
hit the finish button at the bottom.
3.) As a hint, when you want a  +  or a  -  sign always proceed them with a
'  and  they will work.
4.) When I want to transpose a pitch or start time or whatever on a set of
cells, I put a formula, which refers to the cells I want to modify, in a
parellel but blank set of cells, drag it down as far as I need to, then copy
those cells and "paste special"  "values" only into the old cells. Works
great and saves much time when you get the hang of it.

     I want to experiment around, when I learn VB, with inserting VB
progarms into certain cells for a computer aided compositional tool. Very
exciting.

     Hope this helps you out. If you have any questions, feel free to let me
know.

Michael Rhoades


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http://www.innerlightpub.com/rhoadsmith



> -Csound recognizes any    ;    used in excel as    ";"
>  and produces lots of errors therefore


> Some f- tables can not be read or are read falsely:
> -Soundfile names in Gen 1 like "sundfile.aif" are not
> recognised
> -Gen 10  with only 1 given as the first argument
> (sometimes) produces everything but a sinewave
> (someting far more complex, but with definitely no
> other arguments given)
>
>
> Additional information:
> -I work in the save as "text only- spaces shown as
> blanks" -mode in excel, office 98 version
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> Many greetings, Jan Jacob


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