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🔗Sarn Richard Ursell <thcdelta@xxx.xxxx.xx.xxx>

5/17/1999 12:32:22 AM

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am at a loss as to where to find a programming language, and by this I
mean a gooD, and a REALLY GOOD programming language for making sound.

Sure, I have tryed to download CSound, but it has so many errors in it, it
is just not funny, and after three long ours of consulting the manual,
E-Mailing people, and mucking around with this and that and every other
blooming thing, I finally gave up in discust, and know I know:

THERE IS ALMOST CERTAINLY NEVER EVER ANY SUCH THING AS A "FREE LUNCH" SO TO
SPEAK.

I will have to buy a commercial version, that WORKS.

Now, I must state here, that this afore mentioned language, MUST have:

1.The ability to do some farily decent mathematics, such as quarternians,
imaginarys (and their exponents),
functions, ect......

2.Graph stuff, or let me graph weighted coefficients, dependant on other
variables, without me having to wear large painful blisters away from my
fingers, i.e. I call up the instruction "GRAPH", and "whack the old fella
in", (as my Grandfather used to say......

3.Do combinations and permutations-essential for my Quiggle/superpower
temperaments,

4.Do "Quadrified mathematics"-Quiggles/superpowers again,

5.Handel REALLY, AMAZINGLY, MEGA, ULTRA, SUPER, DUPER,
HYPER-WITH-HUNDREDS-AND-THOUSANDS-ON-TOP-ROASTED-NUTS-
BLUE-JELLY-BEANS-A-"GLACE
CHERRY"-CARAMEL-FUDGE-SAUCE-AND-CHOCLATE-MOOSE-WITH-ROASTED-MASHMELLOWS-
B---------I--------G NUMBERS, along, of course, with their little friends
the "quasi-infintesimals".

(Sorry to go to extremes here, but I just wanted you to realise how bigger
numbers I ment.
Superpowers get REAL BIG, REAL FAST..........).

6.Be very fast in calculating and operations,

7.Show graphical information-referably in a "window view" of a MUCH larger
field, as opposed to QBASICS primitive and small 480*640 grid of pixels,

8.Play chords-i.e.with seperate and fully controllable "voices", 16 note
polyphony would be good,

9.Have controllable volume,

10.Allow "panning" in the steryo field so that you could SWEAR that those
notes/drums were weaving about inside your skull,

11.Be easily "dumped" to a file for peeking and pokeing, manipulation and
storeage,

12.And, of course, do microtuning, 1 cent resolution absolute minimum.

My sound card is quite good.

I have been told that C++ might be a good option.

What about VisualBASIC?

The language must be a programming enviroment, not a sequenceing software
like Clakwalk.

Have you any ideas?

Sincerely,

Sarn ursell.