Re: How to make music with out midi keyboard?
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Supercollider and ChucK are almost exclusively for audio experimentation with almost no scoring capability. They're aimed more at the algorithmic music crowd. ChucK itself is only half documented, and I've never played with it much.
In general the languages you're looking at are used by researchers and experimenters more than anyone else, and unless you're interested in how instruments themselves work, they're not worth your time.
The limitation of most of them is incredibly poor support for feedback, which is incredibly important for most instruments. What I mean is feeding the output of the synthesis back into the input. For example, to simulate a flute, you might use two parallel delay lines connected with a filter at both ends and some math to model how air works at the ends. That's a real example, it's called a 1-dimensional waveguide and is how a lot of plugins work.
If you have a Midi keyboard, in other words, they can be fun. But they won't help you if you don't. In most of these you can't do that unless it already provides the flute model, and if it offers feedback it'll be in big blocks with a large minimum delay and thus useless for that sort of thing.
You get to pick between relatively good support for note arrangement, etc, usually with midi output, or a bunch of tools to design your own instruments and effects with terrible scoring capabilities. I'd suggest just reading the manuals fore any of the ones you're interested in; you can tell which category it falls in very very quickly.
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