S. Massy wrote: > I've looked into a few synthesis languages, but, of them all, though > csound as always seemed to me most interesting, it's also the one that's > always seemed to me most daunting. Really? Just tried out chuck and supercollider, and I'm back to csound. Chuck is a really clean, nice language, but the concurrency can be tricky to get your head around. Plus it's quite ineffective computation wise, Supercollider seems very confusing to me, esp being on linux. Startup dir conventions, server/client concepts, the doc comming in strange rtf format. Csound admittedly has a strange, dated language at places, but that can mostly be worked around using #include's and #define's. The strong sides of csound is it very well documented, it's using clear conventions and it's probl the fasted one outthere. You can do deferred time, python stuff (didn't try it out yet) and realtime with midi, you can play samples in almost any format even soundfonts. And somehow I don't feel the thing is fighting me (which could be said about other linux softsynths)... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://www.atte.dk
