• INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL
• ON THIS RELEASE
• CREDITS
• 01 BASICS
• A. DIGITAL AUDIO
• B. PITCH AND FREQUENCY
• C. INTENSITIES
• D. RANDOM
• 02 QUICK START
• A. MAKE CSOUND RUN
• B. CSOUND SYNTAX
• C. CONFIGURING MIDI
• D. LIVE AUDIO
• E. RENDERING TO FILE
• 03 CSOUND LANGUAGE
• A. INITIALIZATION AND PERFORMANCE PASS
• B. LOCAL AND GLOBAL VARIABLES
• C. CONTROL STRUCTURES
• D. FUNCTION TABLES
• E. ARRAYS
• F. LIVE EVENTS
• G. USER DEFINED OPCODES
• H. MACROS
• I. FUNCTIONAL SYNTAX
• 04 SOUND SYNTHESIS
• A. ADDITIVE SYNTHESIS
• B. SUBTRACTIVE SYNTHESIS
• C. AMPLITUDE AND RING MODULATION
• D. FREQUENCY MODULATION
• E. WAVESHAPING
• F. GRANULAR SYNTHESIS
• G. PHYSICAL MODELLING
• H. SCANNED SYNTHESIS
• 05 SOUND MODIFICATION
• A. ENVELOPES
• B. PANNING AND SPATIALIZATION
• C. FILTERS
• D. DELAY AND FEEDBACK
• E. REVERBERATION
• F. AM / RM / WAVESHAPING
• G. GRANULAR SYNTHESIS
• H. CONVOLUTION
• I. FOURIER ANALYSIS / SPECTRAL PROCESSING
• K. ATS RESYNTHESIS
• L. AMPLITUDE AND PITCH TRACKING
• 06 SAMPLES
• A. RECORD AND PLAY SOUNDFILES
• B. RECORD AND PLAY BUFFERS
• 07 MIDI
• A. RECEIVING EVENTS BY MIDIIN
• B. TRIGGERING INSTRUMENT INSTANCES
• C. WORKING WITH CONTROLLERS
• D. READING MIDI FILES
• E. MIDI OUTPUT
• 08 OTHER COMMUNICATION
• A. OPEN SOUND CONTROL
• B. CSOUND AND ARDUINO
• 09 CSOUND IN OTHER APPLICATIONS
• A. CSOUND IN PD
• B. CSOUND IN MAXMSP
• C. CSOUND IN ABLETON LIVE
• D. CSOUND AS A VST PLUGIN
• 10 CSOUND FRONTENDS
• CSOUNDQT
• CABBAGE
• BLUE
• WINXOUND
• CSOUND VIA TERMINAL
• WEB BASED CSOUND
• 11 CSOUND UTILITIES
• CSOUND UTILITIES
• 12 CSOUND AND OTHER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
• A. THE CSOUND API
• B. PYTHON INSIDE CSOUND
• C. PYTHON IN CSOUNDQT
• D. LUA IN CSOUND
• E. CSOUND IN iOS
• F. CSOUND ON ANDROID
• G. CSOUND AND HASKELL
• H. CSOUND AND HTML
• 13 EXTENDING CSOUND
• EXTENDING CSOUND
• OPCODE GUIDE
• OVERVIEW
• SIGNAL PROCESSING I
• SIGNAL PROCESSING II
• DATA
• REALTIME INTERACTION
• INSTRUMENT CONTROL
• MATHS, PYTHON/SYSTEM, PLUGINS
• APPENDIX
• METHODS OF WRITING CSOUND SCORES
• GLOSSARY
• LINKS

LINKS

Downloads

Csound FLOSS Manual Files: http://files.csound-tutorial.net/floss_manual/

Csound: http://csound.com/download.html

Csound source code: http://github.com/csound/csound

Csound's User Defined Opcodes: http://www.csounds.com/udo/  and http://github.com/csudo/csudo

CsoundQt: http://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases

WinXound: http://mnt.conts.it/winxound/

Blue: http://blue.kunstmusik.com/ 

Cabbage: http://cabbageaudio.com/

Most recent (unstable/develop) Csound installer: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/csound/csound/build/artifacts

Most recent (unstable/develop) CsoundQt version: https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases

Community

Csound's info page on github is a good collection of links and basic infos.

The Csound Journal is a main source for different aspects of working with Csound.

Mailing Lists and Bug Tracker

Main place for questions and informations is the Csound Mailing List. To subscribe to the Csound User Discussion List, go to https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND. After subscribing, put questions at csound@listserv.heanet.ie. You can search in the list archive at nabble.com.

To subscribe to the CsoundQt User Discussion List, go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qutecsound-users. You can browse the list archive here.

Csound Developer Discussions: https://listserv.heanet.ie/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CSOUND-DEV

Blue: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=74382

Cabbage http://forum.cabbageaudio.com/

Please report any bug you experienced in Csound at http://github.com/csound/csound/issues, and a CsoundQt related bug at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=227265&atid=1070588. Every bug report is an important contribution.

Tutorials

A Beginning Tutorial is a short introduction from Barry Vercoe, the "father of Csound".

An Instrument Design TOOTorial by Richard Boulanger (1991) is another classical introduction, still very worth to read.

Introduction to Sound Design in Csound also by Richard Boulanger, is the first chapter of the famous Csound Book (2000).

Virtual Sound by Alessandro Cipriani and Maurizio Giri (2000)

A Csound Tutorial by Michael Gogins (2009), one of the main Csound Developers.

Video Tutorials

A playlist as overview by Alex Hofmann:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3EE3219702D17FD3

CsoundQt (QuteCsound)

QuteCsound: Where to start?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XcQ3ReqJTM

First instrument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5OOyFyNaCA

Using MIDI:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zszIN_N3bQ

About configuration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgYea5s8tFs

Presets tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKlCTxmzcS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aES-ZfanF3c

Live Events tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9WU7DzdUmE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs3eO7o349k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUMzp6556Kw

New editing features in 0.6.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1qPlnyv88

New features in 0.7.0:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iytVlxMILyw

New features in 0.9.2:
https://youtu.be/q_1SUT1wD6o

Csoundo (Csound and Processing)

http://csoundblog.com/2010/08/csound-processing-experiment-i/

Open Sound Control in Csound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX1C3TqP_9Y

Csound and Inscore

http://vimeo.com/54160283 (installation)
http://vimeo.com/54160405 (examples)
german versions:
http://vimeo.com/54159567 (installation)
http://vimeo.com/54159964 (beispiele) 

Csound Conferences

See the list at http://csound.com/community.html

Example Collections

Csound Realtime Examples by Iain McCurdy is one of the most inspiring and up-to-date collections.

The Amsterdam Catalog by John-Philipp Gather is particularily interesting because of the adaption of Jean-Claude Risset's famous "Introductory Catalogue of Computer Synthesized Sounds" from 1969.

Books

The Csound Book (2000) edited by Richard Boulanger is still the compendium for anyone who really wants to go in depth with Csound.

Virtual Sound by Alessandro Cipriani and Maurizio Giri (2000)

Signale, Systeme, und Klangsysteme by Martin Neukom (2003, german) has many interesting examples in Csound.

The Audio Programming Book edited by Richard Boulanger and Victor Lazzarini (2011) is a major source with many references to Csound.

Csound Power! by Jim Aikin (2012) is a perfect up-to-date introduction for beginners.

Csound — A Sound and Music Computing System (2016) by Victor Lazzarini and others is the new Csound Book, covering all parts of the Csound audio programming language in depth.