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From: Richard Karpen 
To: Paul Winkler 
Cc: zuijlen@ibm.net ; Csound List 
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 1998 9:12 PM
Subject: Re: C++Sound


>
>Rick Taube's Lisp-based Common Music is the absolute best event
>processor/score language around. It's a quite remarkable achievement.
>Anyone using Csound who wants a high-level programming language for making
>scores should take the time to learn it. Common Music can output csound
>note lists, midifiles, and a number of other formats for other synthesis
>and sound processing programs (CLM, CMix, RT...). It's great as a tool for
>composing "acoustic" music as well if you're into using computers as an
>aid to composition in general.
>
I absolutely must agree hear that if someone wants a "sequencer" for Csound
you have to check out Common Music.  Though the learning curve is steep like
Csound, and there is a lack of much documentation, it is worth it.  As open
ended and vast as Csound.
Ken Locarnini

Since everybody is doing that, I'll throw in another bit. Ever heard
of nyquist: fully object oriented, behavioral abstraction of instruments
(i.e. a glissando behaves with rules defined in a given instrument
and differently in another instrument), full communication between
score and orchestra (as a matter of fact there's very little distinction
on it), etc. etc. etc. Coded efficiently, and a lisp-like interpreter
that resembles CM. Obviously free (cela va sans dire).
What do you want more?

Nicola

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Nicola Bernardini
E-mail: nicb@axnet.it
 
Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture.  Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described
with pictures.