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Canonical Reference Manual

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  • French Translation of the Csound Manual

FLOSS Manual for Csound

  • Csound at FLOSS manuals

Documentation for Developers

  • Csound API Reference (pdf)
  • Inside Csound
  • Extensions to Csound
  • Developing Opcodes
  • Csound Research
  • Visual Tcl

Other Manuals

  • The OLPCsound Reference Manual
  • CsoundAV Manual
  • Csound 4.xx Manual
  • 1992 Historical Vercoe Manual

Csound Wikis

  • Csound on Wikipedia
  • Csound OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Wiki
  • CsoundQT Media Wiki

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