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Csound
Packages for working with Csound

Metapackage which installs packages, libraries, extensions and plug-ins to work with Csound, the grand old audio programming language.

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Debian Multimedia Csound packages

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Cecilia
Sound synthesis and audio signal processing environment
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Cecilia is an audio signal processing environment aimed at sound designers. It lets you create your own GUI using a simple syntax and comes with many original built-in modules and presets for sound effects and synthesis.

Cecilia uses the pyo audio engine created for the Python programming language.
Csladspa
LADSPA plugin for Csound
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This plugin enables the creation of LADSPA plugins with the Csound language.

For more information on Csound or LADSPA, see the csound or ladspa-sdk packages, respectively.
Csound
powerful and versatile sound synthesis software
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Csound is a sound and music synthesis system. Drawing from over 450 signal processing modules, it can be used to model virtually any synthesizer or multi-effect processor. It can work either in real-time or as a compiler.

Csound is to sound synthesis as C is to programming.
Csound-doc
documentation for csound
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This package includes the csound reference manual.

For more information on csound, see the csound package.
Csound-utils
miscellaneous utilities for the Csound system
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This package contains several utilities which may be useful with Csound. These utilities aid in score creation, sound analysis and sound transformations.
Csoundqt
frontend for the csound sound processor
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CsoundQT is a simple cross platform editor and front-end for Csound with syntax highlighting, interactive help and automatic launching of Csound.
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Csoundqt-examples
example scores for csoundqt
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CsoundQT is a simple cross platform editor and front-end for Csound with syntax highlighting, interactive help and automatic launching of Csound.

This package contains several examples for use by csoundqt
Libcsnd6-java
Java bindings for the Csound API
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These are the java bindings for the Csound API.

For more information on Csound, see the csound package.
Liblua5.1-luacsnd
Lua bindings for the Csound API (transitional package)
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This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed.

Official Debian packages with lower relevance

Libcsnd-dev
development files for Csound -- C++ API
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This package contains the development files needed to build programs using the C++ bindings to the Csound library. It also includes the development symlink for the Lua module, but you have to manually install liblua5.1-luacsnd for that to work.

For more information on Csound, see the csound package.
Libcsound64-dev
development files for Csound
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This package contains the development files needed to build programs linking to the Csound library.

For more information on Csound, see the csound package.
Libcsound64-doc
Csound API documentation
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This package contains the API documentation for the Csound library in HTML format.

For more information on Csound, see the csound package.
Libcsoundac-dev
development files for CsoundAC
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This package contains the development files needed to build programs using the CsoundAC algorithmic composition system.

For more information on Csound and CsoundAC, see the csound and csoundac packages.
Pd-csound
Csound external for Pure Data
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This is the csound6~ object for Pure Data (Pd). It allows you to run and interact with Csound scores/instruments from within Pd.

For more information on Csound or Pd, see the respective packages.
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Python3-csound
Python bindings for Csound
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This is the Python binding for the Csound API.

For more information on Csound, see the csound package.
Rosegarden
музыкальный редактор и MIDI/аудио секвенсер
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Rosegarden — это приложение на Qt, которое предоставляет смешанный аудио/MIDI секвенсер (для записи и воспроизведения), многоканальный редактор, редактирование музыки с использованием окна отпечатков клавиш (piano-roll) и партитуры, ввод/вывод в MIDI-файлы, экспорт в файлы lilypond и Csound и т.д.
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