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In a simple usage, the programmer supplies Csound with two specially formatted or real-time audio stream as output.

It has been developed over many years and currently has a vast amount of opcodes (modules). One of its greatest strengths is that it is completely modular and expandable by the user.

The ''orchestra'' and ''score'' files may be unified into a single structured file using XML tags. Here is a very simple example of a unified Csound data file which produces a Wave File containing a one second Sine Wave tone of 1 KHz at a Sample Rate of 44.1 kHz:



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    csound -W -d -o tone.wav 

  

  

  

    sr     = 44100           ; Sample rate.

    kr     = 4410            ; Control signal rate.

    ksmps  = 10              ; Samples pr. control signal.

    nchnls = 1               ; Number of output channels.



    instr 1 

    a1     oscil p4, p5, 1   ; Simple oscillator. 

           out a1            ; Output.

    endin

  



  

    f1 0 8192 10 1           ; Table containing a sine wave.

    i1 0 1 20000 1000        ; Play one second of one kHz tone.

    e


As with many other programming languages, writing long programs in Csound can be eased by using an integrated environment for editing, previewing, testing, and Debugging . Such environments are available.

Csound is closely related to the underlying language for the Structured Audio extensions to MPEG-4 , SAOL.

Csound5 is the latest version of the software, currently available in binary for Linux, Windows and MacOSX. It is
a much improved and expanded version of the original software, available also in the form of a library and API,
which can be used by other software. In addition to the basic C API, there are also Python, Java, LISP, Tcl and
C++ APIs.


SEE ALSO



EXTERNAL LINKS

  • Official website contains FAQs, manuals, programming examples, other front end programs, and misc other goodies. The mailing list archive is also a good place to find detailed information.

  • Project site at Sourceforge


  • Csound Editor is an integrated programming environment for CSound.