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Adam is on forced sabbatical this week, because sometimes coding makes him want to go drown kittens or something. So I’ve been busying myself working on the Record That Never Ends, otherwise known as Callisto, and fooling about with Processing. During the latter phase of operations, I discovered that while it is fairly good at flipping pixels, it ain’t so hot when it comes to sound. (Most Java applications that deal with sound are s-s-s-s-s-stuttery, in my experience, so this comes as no surprise.)

But I was mainly fooling with algorithmic composition, as usual, and I was curious as to what else is out there these days that is Worth A Shit. I still use M and UpBeat because, well, they work for me. And I can generally write my own code in this regard which gives fair to middling results (and thus puts it in the same class as most algorithmic composition software.) What’s the Good Stuff, though? What do you use? Why? Turn me on to something I don’t know about that isn’t Max or CSound. (The former because I don’t care for it, and the latter because, well, I have a life.)