9 Jan
2004
9 Jan
'04
6:52 a.m.
From BrbrOfSvl(a)aol.com on Friday, 2004-01-09 at
01:11:49 -0500:
In a message dated 1/8/04 5:32:16 PM,
linux-audio-user-request(a)music.columbia.edu writes:
I had not heard of these programs before. Thanks for the tip!
But if I had to choose a musical education tool
for teachers
and young people, might I not be better off with a midi
program such as muse or rosegarden4?
What would be the advantage of csound/cecilia?
You will not find better software than Csound for making people actually
think about the nature of sound. I learned more about acoustics/psychoacoustics
working with csound than I did in any class on the subject (not a knock on my
teachers, however, who have been great). Its small size and enormous
versatility, with the addition of a score-making front-end like score11 or ngen, could prove an extremely valuable application for
advanced students who want to
know what's actually going into the sound they are producing. I don't like
cecilia at all - though it does make some things (particularly granular
synthesis) somewhat easier. I feel the great versatility of csound lies in its
absence of an encumbering GUI. I also am not fond of midi, but I guess it's
unavoidable.
Trouble is, my target audience will collapse in a heap without a GUI!
I would not include Ardour unless you want to include
other Jack clients.
Ardour is buggy (though the newest release is better), and it can be a real
pain to use. I really like Rezound, but it can be a little buggy (particularly
Ardour is out, according to everything I have heard until now.
if you are using it as a jack client). Jack is good
if you have a soundcard
that will only talk to one program at a time, and you need to do several
things at once - with jack you can run Ardour's output into freqtweak, and send its
output into rezound for recording on the fly. Depends on what you want to
be able to do with this stuff. Another decent program you might check out is
Pure Data (or PD) - great for realtime applications if you're into that.
Another application I know nothing about. I will look it up.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Conrad