Gabriel Maldonado wrote:

> But, until now (alpha or beta version?), SAOL is very slow on PCs (at
> least 10 times slower
> than Csound).This makes realtime almost impossible.
>

To be fair, the distribution is still really for development and testing
purposes. Ultimately the idea is that it will be implemented in hardware, in
a soundcard or a set-top box.

> > How far can it be taken before we end up reinventing CMIX?
>
> What is the question about CMIX ? (excuse my ignorance). Is it better
> than csound?
>

I don't use it myself, so I cannot make a judgement. Briefly, CMIX is a
large library of  unit generators in C - you use them by writing your own C
program. It is designed by Paul
Lansky:http://www.music.princeton.edu/winham/PSK/

I may follow up your macro ideas once I have read and understood (i'm a bit
slow in the mornings....) :-)

Richard Dobson