Unfortunately we cannot test if my patience would be sufficient as I DO
know about signal processing :-)  

A tool that might be of interest when you just start is VisOrc,
available at 
	http://www2.hku.nl/~perry/   

It is a graphical design tool for C-sound orchestras.  It represents
opcodes as devices, which you can interconnect.  I like the idea,
because it is fairly close to the kind of diagrams that accompanied
articles about Csound's (conceptual) predecessors, such as MUSIC4.  I
did some of the tutorials this way, and found it helpful.

Job van Zuijlen  



Michael Gogins wrote:
> 
> you need to become proficient in the Csound orchestra language, which is not
> at all difficult as a language but is difficult in the sense that you won't
> make any interesting sounds unless you either understand signal processing
> or have the patience of Job.