haliax is right, although I don't cover Csound much. If you want to compose for instruments, you may want to learn more about what contemporary classical compo

haliax is right, although I don't cover Csound much. If you want to compose for instruments, you may want to learn more about what contemporary classical composers are doing (or have done) [1] to address the notational challenges. On the other hand, if you want to have completely freedom, computer generated music [2] can give you that, specially if you use something like Csound, Supercollider [3], Chuck [4], or PD [5]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_classical_music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_classical_music [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_music#Computer-generated_music http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_music#Computer-generat... [3] http://supercollider.sourceforge.net http://supercollider.sourceforge.net [4] http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu [5] http://puredata.info http://puredata.info