On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:29:13AM +0100, Mario Lang wrote: > >> What about csound? This is a command line and text based program for > >> handling synth stuff. Check out http://www.csounds.com > > > > or SAOL, which you can use on linux thanks to sfront. > > sort of like "new improved" csound. > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~lazzaro/sa/ > > Yes, both are nice, but both have the same problem for me. It's not easy to > get actual instruments going... At least not for me. It was always > quite complicated to produce anything on my own, and there are just > not man public instrument sources which are actually usable imo.
it's true, there's some programming overhead. Butt there are quite a lot of nice csound instruments on the net. Not so many for saol, unfortunately. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com "Welcome to Muppet Labs, where the future is made - today!"