| While I appreciate the recommendation and will certainly investigate it, I
have to ask: Is this an indication that the answer to my question is "No"?
Just wondering if I should give up the search...
> Richard Karpen wrote:
>
> > I recommend toe *everyone* who uses Csound to look into Common Music, a
> > lisp-based, environment created by Heinrich Taube, for making
> note-lists.
> > It's well worth the effort to learn this language. It's nothing short of
> > absolutely great. And it's free!!
> >
> > Richard Karpen
>
> Even though "me too" reponses are not usually appropriate, let me add my
> enthusiastic
> vote for CommonMusic. Not only can you generate csound sco
> output, but you can
> generate midi output, or read midi in, then convert the midi to
> csound sco, all
> with a very powerful
> (and *not* difficult!) .language controling the many parameters
> of your ins. I
> love the interactive
> way I can genrerate a run of Csound score, synthsize, listen to
> the result,
> adjust parameters,
> do resynthesis, listen, etc...
>
> Available for
> DOS/WIN (no gui)
> Mac (great gui added)
> SGI,
> Linux !:-)!
> NeXT
>
> they have varying levels of Midi implementation...all read write
> files...some
> have 'real time' output/input
> the Mac version signs into OpcodeMidiSystem, allowing use of it's
> features.
>
> I also added some silly hacks years ago to the distribution that allow
> generating some cmix and cmusic scores also,
> if you have those tools.
>
> The Home ftp site:
> ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/cm
>
> While there (one dir up) also check out CommonLispMusic, a
> synthesis toolkit in
> CommonLisp, that generates, compiles, then links in fast c code from Lisp
> instrument definitions. Some great example instruments in the dist, too.
> ( Not avail for all the platforms that CommonMusic is..)
>
> It's really *not* that hard to learn, and can help immensely with
> generating
> csound score files!
>
>
> CharlieB
>
>
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