Csound

Csound has a Web IDE: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ide.csound.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ide.csound.com&#x2F;</a><p>If you are interested in music programming languages, have a look on the languages that Bela platform supports: Pure Data, SuperCollider, Csound, Faust,<p>and of course, Glicol (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glicol.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;glicol.org</a>) that I am developing :)

The electronic musician BT released a track written entirely in Csound: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ve8WaGmyhfI">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=ve8WaGmyhfI</a>

Csound is <i>extremely</i> powerful, but my favorite thing in this vein these days is Faust:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faust.grame.fr&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faust.grame.fr&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s a functional language with a nice way of generating diagrams of DSP algorithms, but its big killer feature for me is its language bindings, which include C, C++, Cmajor, Codebox, CSharp, DLang, Java, JAX, Julia, JSFX, &quot;old&quot; C++, Rust, VHDL, and WebAssembly (wast&#x2F;wasm) out of the box.

Related:<p><i>Csound: A sound and music computing system</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22787566">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22787566</a> - April 2020 (90 comments)<p><i>CSound for Android</i> - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10794944">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=10794944</a> - Dec 2015 (12 comments)

I was reminded that there was a guy who wrote a Python wrapper for Csound a long time ago. Apparently it&#x27;s been superseded by this project, pyo: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajaxsoundstudio.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;pyo&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;ajaxsoundstudio.com&#x2F;software&#x2F;pyo&#x2F;</a>

Fiddling around at low level can be quite fun indeed.<p>Kind of related: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulbatchelor.github.io&#x2F;proj&#x2F;sporth" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;paulbatchelor.github.io&#x2F;proj&#x2F;sporth</a><p>&gt; Chorth enables Sporth to be run inside of ChucK as a Chugin.

If you are interested in domain specific languages for audio, definitely check out cmajor (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SoundStacks&#x2F;cmajor">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SoundStacks&#x2F;cmajor</a>) It is still in development but already very capable and the devs are working hard to make this the industry standard for audio plugin development.

For low-level sound generation, I&#x27;d also recommend checking out my experimental project <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ClickHouse&#x2F;NoiSQL">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;ClickHouse&#x2F;NoiSQL</a><p>It&#x27;s unusual because it uses only SQL.

If you want to explore a more functional approach to sound generation, there is always Faust:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faust.grame.fr" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;faust.grame.fr</a>

Csound can make some incredible timbres, and do amazing things with them. The learning curve isn&#x27;t easy, and it can be too fiddly for some, but the results can be entirely yours.

I love csound. I used the eMacs mode and had a lot of fun with it.

I used Csound for a mit reality hack project. What an interesting system!

Csound is... &quot;interesting&quot; and not necessarily in the good way. If you want to play with something similar, but more modern, have a look at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supercollider.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;supercollider.github.io&#x2F;</a> instead.