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 am trying to figure out how to make sounds similar to the "Keys" section on this soundboard. I'm new to music production and I would love to learn how to make something that sounds similar as part of the learning process, but don't even know where to start dissecting a sounds like this! Source: almost 2 years ago
Really cool, and I think I might use or integrate this, but I agree with > I find this tool an interesting concept, but I couldn't get through the initial step to create a 4/4 kick loop. There's too much internal state going on with no indicators about what's active or what mode I'm in that it feels more like a memory game than a fun music toy. Maybe it's not a coincidence I'm not a vim/emacs fan? :D I think it... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Or maybe it'd be like using one of those online beat generators, but instead of dragging over from a fully opened menu you have to unlock them. https://splice.com/sounds/beatmaker or http://sampulator.com/. Source: almost 3 years ago
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