31 Jan
2005
31 Jan
'05
6:10 a.m.
vanDongen/Gilcher wrote:
SuperCollider is pretty much a synthesis engine as far
as I know.
With extensive support for algorithmic compositio of course, but doesn't seem
to be the "composers workspace" that is the ambition.
SC3 certainly has enough "composition primitives" to keep a composer
happy at the atomic level, but:
However have you looked at:
common music
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cm/doc/cm.html
lisp based , text controlled, also with a nice notation package
*This* is the bee's knees for computer-assisted composition. Current
versions of CM now include graphic tools (plotter, output control
panel), and Rick's book (Notes From The Metalevel) is an exhaustive
introduction to using Common Music. Highly recommended.
Btw, CM's output targets include MIDI (file & stream), Csound and Common
Lisp Music score formats, and Common Music Notation.
open music
http://freesoftware.ircam.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=15
graphical but also lisp-based. There is a port to linux on sourceforge CVS,
but I never got the required lisp stuff to work properly, but I didn't really
try hard.
Alas, development of OM for Linux is currently in limbo. AFAIK there's
no-one supporting it at this time. And unfortunately the Linux version
is incomplete in some important respects.
Earlier versions of Planet CCRMA supported OM, but I believe that some
of Fernando's latest Planetary enhancements have eliminated support for OM.
And of course always go to
http://www.linux-sound.org/
and browse for all the wonderful unfinished software that exists that almost
does what you think you wanted.
You might even find a tool or two that actually works... ;-)
Best regards,
dp