Another vote for MusE, On Thursday 08 January 2004 23:24, Conrad Newton wrote: > I have not yet looked at muse, but I did briefly investigate > rosegarden4, and immediately tripped over the use of jack. > Is muse any simpler to configure, or is it about the same? MusE doesn't require jackd to produce results, It is much more immediate than rosegarden4. You probably want a softsynth or two to go with. Cecilia makes csound a little more open to people who aren't used to the command line. You still have to learn csound, however. Fortunately Dave Phillips has written some excellent tutorials. You choose... HTH tim hall