[linux-audio-dev] Common synthesizer interface -or- microtonal alternative to MIDI?

[dave at pawfal.org]

> The problem is that I don't know of any software synthesizer that is:
> 1. good enough for decent music production;
> 2. easy to use by non-experts (this is a direct stab at CSound, or
>    better at its lack of a decent GUI, of a standard instrument exchange
>    file format and of a decent, centalized library of presets)
> 3. free software.

have you checked out supercollider? its somewhat dubious on point 2 I guess.

dave