On Sunday 30 January 2005 10:54, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > If the answer is yes, and you want such a tool, then my pragmatic response > would be to bite the bullet and learn to use things like SuperCollider. > They wil give you complete freedom (and a hard time to exploit it), and > virtually complete absense of the 'cultural bias' of traditional tools. >
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. 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 or 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. or http://musica.sourceforge.net/ Never tried it, but with your math background it might be interesting: from their site: "What is Musica? Musica is an open source project that aims at the creation of a complete Mathematica package for the exploration of the interconnection between Mathematics and Music. " and as an example of a small app that can be hooked into a system of small apps to do it the unix-way http://pages.infinit.net/linux/music/metropro.html a complex multi tempo/meter metronome. 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. cheers Gerard -- electronic & acoustic musics-- http://www.xs4all.nl/~gml
