Csound Alternatives

csound reviews and mentions

• csound VS midica - a user suggested alternative
  2 projects | 12 Aug 2023
• How have you used coding in your setup?
  5 projects | /r/synthesizers | 10 Jun 2023

  Nobody has mentioned Csound.

• Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf]
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2023
• The Octave Divided into Five Parts in 50 edo
  1 project | /r/musictheory | 8 May 2023

  Thank you so much for your appreciation ! I'm planning a blog post abou that... but, meanwhile: I use the following free software: 1) Huygens Fokker Scala to tune files (see below which ones); 2) SynthFont (in combination with soundfonts) to play the files tuned by Scala; The files in 1) are text files essentially representing pitches and durations. I set them up by means of an electronic spreadsheet :) Here's a link to Huygens Fokker Scala: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ The underlying logic is definitely an "abc" one, rather than WYSIWYG. I'm still working under Windows, but I'm trying to switch to Linux, so I could need to replace Scala (which still doesn't install smoothly on recent distros) by Csound: https://csound.com/ 🙂 (Scala doesn't install smoothly on recent Linux distros).

• Interests in Generative, Electronic, Loop-Based, Computer Music?
  4 projects | /r/composer | 7 Feb 2023
• Cheapest way to make music
  4 projects | /r/synthesizers | 10 Jan 2023

  Pure Data, cSound, and SuperCollider are all free and opensource. Incredible possibility, though the learning curb can be steep.

• How did you guys get into synthesizers?
  2 projects | /r/synthesizers | 10 Jan 2023

  For fun, I took a class in computer music. I still did not know what a synthesizer was. Once class got under way, we started using this archaic horrible piece of software, Csound. Not long into the class, it finally kind of dawned on me that synths exist, what they are and how they work, and I started buying gear. Once I had gear, I really really hated Csound, and I wound up dropping the class (Covid had something to do with that). A lot of things started to make sense (Regular Show, for instance) and I got really interested in sound design.

• dub team but i think it means something else
  1 project | /r/Ramble | 22 Nov 2022
• Instrument design tools?
  1 project | /r/linuxaudio | 24 Oct 2022

  CSound looks interesting: https://csound.com

• Is there an equivalent to shaders for audio-programming?
  1 project | /r/learnprogramming | 22 Oct 2022

  csound would be interesting to play with.

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