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 Feature-rich environment for Csound, 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.
- Csgrouper Emil Barton's "Perl program that generates a Csound score".
- 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.
- CsoundAC Python-based environment for algorithmic composition, from developer Michael Gogins.
- 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.
- GRACE/CM The evolution of Rick Taube's great Common Music, with GUI and continuing support for Csound.
- 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.
- WinXound Excellent multi-platform, multi-target editing environment from Stefano Bonetti.
Some Csound Documentation: