Thanks Dave. These are a start. However, I seem to have been looking through these sorts of code stubs for a few days and not finding anything that approaches being a Mini Moog, if you get my drift. I'm sure there are some folks out there that have done all this stuff, and are probably sharing it (or so I hope) but so far nothing much to report. (well, I'm less than 12 hours into SC and that includes about 6.5 hours sleeping...) ;-) Anyway, thanks for the links. Two I hadn't run across yet. emacs. Argh!! I do get that the SC community seems to say it's the way to go, so I suppose I'll finally have to urcmb, but I'm not looking forward to it. I found one ice, very simple SC front end call, of all things, scfront. It installs and runs. Very light and easy to use, apparently. We'll see. http://aug.ment.org/scfront/ It's mentioned on the WIKI you pointed me to although I got to it through Google. Thanks much, Mark On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:32:51 -0500, Dave Phillips <dlphilp(a)bright.net> wrote: