The Composers Toolbox, a Lisp-based precomposition environment: General system overview and an introduction to the packageʹs new krayola MIDI paint module

The Composers Toolbox is a Macintosh Common Lisp-based environment designed to facilitate ease of data manipulation during the precompositional sketching process. The package provides a series of tools, many with graphic interfaces, which allow the user to work with both MIDI and sampled sound data in a free and flexible fashion.