>From Brian Redfern on Thursday, 2004-01-08 at 15:48:09 -0800: > > > > In the present context, I am avoiding hacker programs. > > Have you used cecilia, the front end to csound? > > Does it make the whole package more user-friendly? > > It does, and it works pretty easily, makes it very easy to do granular > synthesis and has some good built in demos. But if I had to choose a musical education tool for teachers and young people, might I not be better off with a midi program such as muse or rosegarden4? What would be the advantage of csound/cecilia? I gather that csound is the emacs of the music world, but I have already removed emacs from my live CD, because I regard it as frightening to the average user. Conrad
