Csound Computer/OS: DOS, Windows, Mac, Linux, Atari, SGI Year: 1986 Author: Barry Vercoe (MIT) Manipulates: Web: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/Man/c_front.html Implementation: C Paper: Description: Csound is a popular and widely used software synthesis package in the tradition of so-called music-N languages, among which the best-known is Music V. It consists of an orchestra- and score-driven executable, written in C for portability. Basically Csound reads some files and creates the result as a soundfile on disk or, on faster machines, realtime through a DAC.

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