I wonder if Antescofo 0.8 still supports MIDI input? Trying it out in Max 7 (7.0.5), just for curiosity – of course it is much less interesting than following audio input – but was not able to get it working. I also did not succeed to get Antescofo responding to the little “masterworks” in the basic tutorials (e.g. “The action language” and “More action language”) played on a MIDI keyboard.
By the way, some scores in the tutorials now are rejected because of an offending label “start” (which is an action keyword according to the current version of the language reference, the “not-so-short introduction” draft). This can be worked around by changing the label to “starting” (or something else).