Check out MSG, a synthesis/sampling engine: http://stub.org/ex/MSG/MSG-1.09-PRELIM.tgz It's used by slub - a noisy generative gabba pop band (http://slub.org/) they use it to play live, triggered with perl scripts mainly I believe. it's a pretty interesting bit of software anyway. On Fri, 1 Aug 2003 11:23:19 -0400, S. Massy wrote > Hi, > > For a while now I've wanted to fiddle with a reasonably powerful > synthesis engine but haven't found a suitable one yet. I've been > dying to give csound a good try but haven't succeeded in compiling > it yet, and I've tried cmix but have found it a bit too "low-level" > for my humble tastes. My problem is that most of the interesting > synthesis engines and synth emulators today seem to come with a GUI > and I can't use one, nor do I care to, to be frank. So, does anyone > have a suggestion for a fairly powerful CLI synth engine I might try? > > Thanks, > S.M.