Re: [microsound] visual interface info

[tim kugel <guitardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dear m + michael

thanks very much!  this is what I have heard from others before.  I hope I
can handle the steep curve, luckily, I have a close friend who might assist.

I'm sure there is much more, but the only music I know I have discussed made
in this manner (partially) is akira's, which I find quite beautiful - can you
at some point recommend more artists and titles (perhaps yourselves?)

I have only been on the list for a few months - perhaps old threads are
available on this method. I'll go to the csound and supercollider sites and
have a look.
Thanks again

tim

M Stevens wrote:

> SuperCollider would probably work quite well for somebody visually
> impaired. Just make the font sizes big enough to see comfortably. It's
> great for real-time and sounds great. Yeah, bit of a learning curve,
> though, especially if you don't already have some oop experience.
>
> On Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 08:53 PM, Michal Seta wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Well, I'm no expert on visually impaired but if you're a coder you will
> > probably find Csound and SuperCollider usefuls (www.csounds.com,
> > www.audiosynth.com).
> >
> > For Csound you basically use your fav text editor and in SuperCollider
> > you
> > can set the font size to your liking.  Both quite a steep learning
> > curve.
> >
> > Csound is quite lousy in real-time (but that may change in the future
> > on a
> > Mac according to the earlier post from Dr. R. Boulanger but the Direct
> > Csound on PC is apparently good).  SuperCollider also understnds MIDI
> > so if
> > you have a MIDI guitar or a MIDI pickup ( I use the Roland GR-50 with a
> > MIDI
> > pickup - can't recall the model, though) you can very nicely use your
> > guitar
> > and your skill as means of control.
> >
> > Then, you can convert your PII into a Linux Box and there are a few more
> > options with similar (dis)advantages
> > (http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/).  According to a recent
> > study
> > done by Karl MacMillan and friends Linux seems to pretty much lead in
> > terms
> > of audio latencies (alongside with MacOS X).
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > ./MiS