Some Csound Helpers
- Abram's Csound Software graphic table editing, FFT drawing, and a sequencer from Abram Hindle
- ACCCI John Gather's Amsterdam Catalog of Csound Computer Instruments (version 1.1)
- AlgoScore graphic composition program with Csound output, from Jonatan Liljedahl
- Ambisonics an implementation for Csound
- AthenaCL "...an object-oriented, Python-scriptable algorithmic front-end to Csound"
- AVSynthesis Jean-Pierre Lemoine's powerful audio/visual synthesis environment, requires OpenGL and at least Csound5
- blue the composition environment for Csound and Java, from Steven Yi
- Bol Processor sources are now open, good news from Bernard Bel and Anthony Kozar
- Cabbage cross-platform Csound-based audio plugin production environment from Rory Walsh
- Cabel a Python-based GUI for creating Csound processing networks
- Cecilia4 powerful composition/processing environment in Python
- Ceres will create a Csound score from granulation of soundfile
- CMask Andre Bartetzki's stochastic score generator for Csound
- CSFE a Tcl/Tk Csound front-end from Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
- csLADSPA a toolkit for developing LADSPA plugins with Csound, from Victor Lazzarini and Rory Walsh
- CSmusgen software for transforming musical series, requires Csound and FLTK
- csound-expression a Haskell library for generating Csound instrument and score files
- Csound Realtime Examples a great collection from Iain McCurdy
- Csound Syntax for Vi very cool set of definitions for Vi/Vim, from Luis Jure
- Csoundo exceptionally cool library to connect Csound with Processing 2.0
- CsoundQt Andres Cabrera's fantastic IDE for creating and editing Csound instruments and scores
- csound-x.el Csound-mode package for GNU Emacs
- Dex Tracker tracker-style GUI for composing with Csound
- Drumachine a score generator for percussion tracks
- FJenie graphic editor for Csound function tables, requires Java
- Houdini/Csound Mark Story makes the connection...
- hYdraJ Malte Steiner's editor for hetro analysis files, now available in a Java version
- ImproSculpt Oeyvind Brandtsegg's great Csound-based performance software
- jcsound a JACK wrapper for Csound, from Gerard van Dongen
- Meloncillo Java-based GUI front-end for audio synthesis server software with spatialization controls (SuperCollider3 or Csound)
- NetCsound an on-line rendering service for Csound CSD files
- nGen Mikel Kuehn's generator for Csound scores and Standard MIDI files
- Perlscore "an infant translation of the Cscore library to Perl", from Toby Shepard
- Pmask an implementation of CMask (see above) in Python from Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
- psycops Csound score generation library in Python
- PVTool manipulates Csound phase vocoder files
- PythonScore Jacob Joaqin's very cool contribution to live coding with Csound
- Rosegarden notation-based audio/MIDI sequencer with export-to-Csound capability
- Scala a powerful software tool for experimentation with musical tunings, can save data in Csound score format
- Scheme Score preprocessor for Csound scores
- Score11 a Csound score file preprocessor from Allan Schindler and the Eastman Computer Music Center
- Smasher beat/loop slicer built on the Csound API
- SoundSpace a Java GUI for Richard Karpen's space Csound opcode
- Surmulot Stéphane Rollandin's suite of "open software for musical composition", includes his Csound-x
Some Csound Documentation: