| the Mac version of CommonMusic is the most complete
 | implementation around!

sorry for catching up with email one at a time ...

It depends.  MCL is the LISP environment that is probably
integrated best with the OS.  Which, of course, is the downside :)
If you are willing to put up with the Mac's idiosyncracies
and if you don't really depend on sound synthesis, it is a
very good choice.

There is also Franz's Allegro Common Lisp, running on UNIX
boxes--not as OS-dependent as MCL, but in certain areas clealy
of more strength, albeit expensive.  They offer a *free* (!!)
LINUX version, though, so if you're more into sound processing,
whether csound or cmusic of cmix or clm, get a LINUX box.  If
you have some cash to spare, though, an SGI will make you happier.

-Tobias


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Tobias Kunze                       t@kunze.stanford.edu
CCRMA, Stanford University         http://www.stanford.edu/~tkunze