Part I. Overview

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Csound Command

Order of Precedence

Description of the command syntax

Csound command line

Command-line Flags (by Category)

Csound Environment Variables

Unified File Format for Orchestras and Scores

Description

Example

Command Line Parameter File (.csoundrc)

Score File Preprocessing

The Extract Feature

Independent Pre-Processing with Scsort

Using Csound

Csound's Console Output

How Csound works

Amplitude values in Csound

Real-Time Audio

Realtime I/O on Linux

Windows

Mac OSX

Optimizing Audio I/O Latency

Configuring

Syntax of the Orchestra

Orchestra Header Statements

Instrument and Opcode Block Statements

Ordinary Statements

Types, Constants and Variables

Variable Initialization

Expressions

Directories and Files

Nomenclature

Macros

Named Instruments

User Defined Opcodes (UDO)

K-Rate Vectors

Function Syntax in Csound6

The Standard Numeric Score

Preprocessing of Standard Scores

Carry

Tempo

Sort

Score Statements

Next-P and Previous-P Symbols

Ramping

Score Macros

Multiple File Score

Evaluation of Expressions

Strings in p-fields

Front Ends

CsoundAC

CsoundVST

Building Csound

Csound Links