From Brian Redfern on Thursday, 2004-01-08 at 15:48:09
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In the present context, I am avoiding hacker programs.
Have you used cecilia, the front end to csound?
Does it make the whole package more user-friendly?
It does, and it works pretty easily, makes it very easy to do granular
synthesis and has some good built in demos.
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?
I gather that csound is the emacs of the music world,
but I have already removed emacs from my live CD,
because I regard it as frightening to the average user.
Conrad