Frontends

  • AthenaCL
    "...an object-oriented, Python-scriptable algorithmic front-end to Csound".
  • Blue
    The composition environment for Csound and Java, from Steven Yi
  • Bol Processor
    Bol Processor 2 (BP2) is a program by Bernard Bel for music composition and improvisation with real-time MIDI, MIDI file, Csound, and text output options.
  • Cabbage
    Cabbage is a program by Rory Walsh for creating cross platform Csound based audio plugins.
  • Cabel
    Cabel, by Sebastian Gutsfeld and Matthias Thar, is a graphical user interface for building Csound instruments by patching modules similar to modular synthesizer.
  • Cecilia
    Cecilia is a graphic user interface for the sound synthesis and sound processing package Csound.
  • Ceres
    Create a Csound score from granulation of soundfile.
  • CSFE
    A Tcl/Tk Csound front-end from Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu
  • Common Music (also includes Grace and Grace CL).
    Common Music (CM) is a music composition environment that can be programmed in Scheme and SAL (an easy-to-learn, expressive infix language).
  • HPKComposer
    A GUI tool for building sound compositions, and for building 3D worlds where graphical object evolutions can follow those of the sounds.
  • Meloncillo
    Java-based GUI front-end for audio synthesis server software with spatialization controls.
  • NetCsound
    An on-line rendering service for Csound CSD files.
  • Rationale
    A sequencer specialized for extended just intonation tuning systems. Rationale does not use scales, only collections of notes related by frequency ratio, infinitely transposable. Any rational frequency ratio can be an interval, but no tempered tunings.
  • WinXound
    An open source editor for CSound* and CSoundAV** developed by Stefano Bonetti.