Csound

Csound is a sound and music computing system that has its roots in the earliest of computer software, the MUSIC-N series by Max Mathews. Csound was originally released in 1985 by Barry Vercoe and it has been a part of the computer music world since. Today’s Csound works on desktop, mobile, embedded, server, and web platforms and powers music software and music-making for musicians around the world.

This is the develop branch of the Csound main code repository. The latest beta release installers for MacOS, iOS, and Windows can be downloaded from the relevant github actions page. Selecting the latest develop build brings a page with the download artefacts at the bottom. Csound is distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this software; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 31 Milk Street, 960789, Boston, MA, 02196, USA This repository contains the code for the core Csound library and the command-line interface frontend. It also contains specific code for ports to various embedded, mobile and web platforms. For general project information, please look at where all details about Csound, what it does, its history, music made with it, and many other things can be found. Information about build pipelines with Azure and Github actions is given in DockerFiles/Readme.md. Csound contains contributions from musicians, scientists, and programmers from around the world. They include (but are not limited to): Allan Lee Andres Cabrera Anthony Kozar Barry Vercoe Bill Gardner Bill Verplank Dan Ellis David Macintyre Ed Costello Eli Breder Fabio P. Bertolotti Felipe Sataler François Pinot Gabriel Maldonado Greg Sullivan Hans Mikelson Henri Manson Ian McCurdy Istvan Varga Jean Piché Joachim Heintz John Ramsdell John ffitch Marc Resibois Mark Dolson Matt Ingalls Max Mathews Michael Casey Michael Clark Michael Gogins Mike Berry Nate Whetsell Paris Smaragdis Perry Cook Peter Neubäcker Peter Nix Rasmus Ekman Richard Dobson Richard Karpen Rob Shaw Robin Whittle Rory Walsh Sean Costello Stephen Kyne Steven Yi Tito Latini Tom Erbe Victor Lazzarini Ville Pulkki Werner Mendizabal