On 28/02/2012 00:43, Michael Gogins wrote: ..
What I would dearly love to hear in this discussion is how Csound can be improved to facilitate the creation of music, from people who do use software to compose and create their music. Or how some other software might be better, for that matter.
This in the end is one of the "big" questions. "music" of course is a super-category second only to "art", so anything sufficiently defined to be implementable is going to have to narrow things down considerably. This is broadly how Csound has evolved - individual composers asking for specific things, and this or that developer saying "I can do that". I doubt that Csound is unique in this respect, but it must be close to the top. And of course with a number of "musical developers" around, one or other of them takes up the initiative to add some new element in the firm belief it is important or useful, e.g. in the creation of their music. Asking for something to "facilitate the creation of music" begs the question, as given a room with 100 people, you will get 200+ ideas as to what "music" is, and 400+ ideas as to what sorts of tools facilitate their creation. Given that, I think the number of opcodes in Csound can be commended for its economy!
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