>From BrbrOfSvl@xxxxxxx on Friday, 2004-01-09 at 01:11:49 -0500: > > In a message dated 1/8/04 5:32:16 PM, > linux-audio-user-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > > > 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? > > > > > > You will not find better software than Csound for making people actually > think about the nature of sound. I learned more about acoustics/psychoacoustics > working with csound than I did in any class on the subject (not a knock on my > teachers, however, who have been great). Its small size and enormous > versatility, with the addition of a score-making front-end like score11 or ngen, I had not heard of these programs before. Thanks for the tip! > could prove an extremely valuable application for advanced students who want to > know what's actually going into the sound they are producing. I don't like > cecilia at all - though it does make some things (particularly granular > synthesis) somewhat easier. I feel the great versatility of csound lies in its > absence of an encumbering GUI. I also am not fond of midi, but I guess it's > unavoidable. Trouble is, my target audience will collapse in a heap without a GUI! > I would not include Ardour unless you want to include other Jack clients. > Ardour is buggy (though the newest release is better), and it can be a real > pain to use. I really like Rezound, but it can be a little buggy (particularly Ardour is out, according to everything I have heard until now. > if you are using it as a jack client). Jack is good if you have a soundcard > that will only talk to one program at a time, and you need to do several > things at once - with jack you can run Ardour's output into freqtweak, and send its > output into rezound for recording on the fly. Depends on what you want to > be able to do with this stuff. Another decent program you might check out is > Pure Data (or PD) - great for realtime applications if you're into that. Another application I know nothing about. I will look it up. Thanks for your comments and suggestions. Conrad
