Csound is a sound and music computing system which was originally developed by Barry Vercoe in 1985 at MIT Media Lab. Since the 90s, it has been developed by a group of core developers. A wider community of volunteers contribute examples, documentation, articles, and takes part in the Csound development with bug reports, feature requests and discussions with the core development team.
Although Csound has a strong tradition as a tool for composing electro-acoustic pieces, it is used by composers and musicians for any kind of music that can be made with the help of the computer. Csound has traditionally been used in a non-interactive score driven context, but nowadays it is mostly used in in a real-time context. Csound can run on a host of different platforms including all major operating systems as well as Android and iOS. Csound can also be called through other programming languages such as Python, Lua, C/C++, Java, etc.
One of the main principles in Csound development is to guarantee backwards compatibility. You can still render a Csound source file from 1986 on the latest Csound release, and you should be able to render a file written today with the latest Csound in 2036.
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I was reminded that there was a guy who wrote a Python wrapper for Csound a long time ago. Apparently it's been superseded by this project, pyo: http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
There is a python module called PYO. This has a wealth of tools for signal processing: filters, Delays, synthesis generators etc. (Look at it here- Http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/software/pyo/). Source: 10 months ago
I created a Python-based modular synthesiser based on Olivier Bélanger's Pyo library. It's essentially another layer on top of Pyo that makes it quicker and easier to create songs. It also makes it super easy to use with other Python libraries. Source: over 1 year ago
The sound is also synthesized with python but not included in the tutorial... I used the pyo library, which is wonderful and ha good docs, but I'm not expert enough to teach it to others. I agree the sound turned out to be really satisfying, which I did not expect. I originally created it because the animations without sound felt wrong. Source: about 2 years ago
It's rendered for binaural audio using the Pyo library. With earbuds, you should be able to tell the approximate position of each bounce (azimuth and maybe elevation) just from the sound. Source: over 2 years ago
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