I did that mistake only once in my life. a 5 min piece took me about a month, if not more. I said, no more typing. What I found particularily useful, besides scripting languages, was OOo.calc. writing out 50 000 events, in some granular score I did, took only 25 seconds (and that because I was on a slow machine) after I have defined the formulas for each p-field. ./MiS Brian Redfern <bredfern@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Well, that's why I use csound, except the only problem is that its very > time consuming, takes weeks to do just one song, because I have to enter > every note by hand. In that way I can transcribe rhythm tracks that aren't > consistant, because I have such atomic level control. I also have created > some composition techniques that would be impossible to do with most midi > sequencers because I'm both using pitches that are outside those notes > supported by midi, and I'm also running five different time signatures > against each other. > > But like I said the drawback to this approach is that its like pointalist > painting, and it takes forver to compose a tune.
