BAIN MUSC 540
Projects in Computer Music

Learning Csound

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What is Csound?

1. Wikipedia article {WP}
2. Csound.com

Documentation

1. Csound Documentation {Csound.com}
2. Barry Vercoe (MIT Media Lab), The Canonical Csound Reference Manual (English) {Csound.com}
3. CsoundQt {GitHub}

Download Csound

Download Csound {Csound.com}
for Win, Mac, Ubuntu, etc.

GitHub

Csound Repositories on GitHub {GitHub.com}

Getting Started

1. Getting Started with Csound {Csound.com}
2. Applications of Csound {Csound.com}
3. Csound Front-Ends {Csound.com}
   

Tutorials

1. Csound Floss Manual (English)
2. Boulanger
   • Ch. 1 Introduction to Sound Design in Csound (Boulanger 2000) {Csound.com}
   • Mastering Csound {Csound.com}
   • An Instrument Design TOOTorial {Csounds.com}
3. Mikelson Tutorials {Csounds.com}
4. Eastman Csound Tutorial {Rochester.edu}
5. Other tutorials {Csounds.com}

Journal

Csound Journal {Csounds.com} (2005-14)

Books

Bianchini, Riccardo and Alessandro Cipriani. 2008. Virtual Sound: Sound Synthesis and Signal Processing - Theory and Practice with Csound. Rome: Contemponet. {GB}

Boulanger, Richard. 2000. The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis, Sound Design, Signal Processing, and Programming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

Boulanger, Richard and Victor Lazzarini. 2011. The Audio Programming Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. {GB}

Lazzarini, Victor , Steven Yi, John ffitch, Joachim Heintz, Øyvind Brandtsegg, and Iain McCurdy. 2016. Csound: A Sound and Music Computing System. New York: Springer. {GB}

More Csound Books

Updated: October 3, 2019