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Read the PDF Version Read in Open Office  Csound is one of the
most well known and longest established programs in the field of
audio programming. It was developed in the mid-1980s at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by Barry Vercoe.
Csound's history lies deep in the roots of computer music. It is
a direct descendant of the oldest computer program for sound
synthesis, 'MusicN', by Max Mathews. Csound is free and open
source, distributed under the LGPL licence, and is maintained
and expanded by a core of developers with support from a wider
global community.  Csound has been growing for about 30 years.
There is rarely anything related to audio you cannot do with
Csound. You can work by rendering offline, or in real-time by
processing live audio and synthesizing sound on the fly. You can
control Csound via MIDI, OSC, or via the Csound API (Application
Programming Interface). In Csound, you will find the widest
collection of tools f