NTUPLET@aol.com wrote:

>  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!

Well, if you like composing songs in the following format:

i99 0 61

i1 0 7.5  .16 .223 .63 	2.3 .32 1 .96 1 .53 1 1	.42 1 .9 1  1
i1 0 7.7 .222	.15	.74	2.4	.24	.98	1.01	1 	.53 	1 

...Csound is great for composing. However, if you need to do this for more than 30 or so notes, the
above gets pretty old. It all depends on what type of music you want to do. If your composition is
made up of only a few sonic events, each of which is very complex, then doing scores in the above
manner will work out well (the above lines were an excerpt from a composition I did a few months
ago). If you wish to have many hundreds of notes in a piece, as most "traditional" music does, you
should look into a score processing/generating language. I have used Common Music, a LISP-based
score generating program. Not the easiest language to learn, but it certainly makes "note"-based
music much easier to handle.