Editing Csound (section)

==History==
Csound was originally developed by [[Barry Vercoe]] at the [[MIT Media Lab]] in 1985,<ref name="TheSynth">{{Cite book |last1=Vail |first1=Mark |year=2014 |title=The Synthesizer |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |page=102 |isbn=978-0195394894}}</ref> based on his earlier system called Music 11, which in its turn followed the [[MUSIC-N]] model initiated by [[Max Mathews]] at [[Bell Labs]]. Csound development continued throughout the 1990s and 2000s, led by [[John Fitch (computer scientist)|John Fitch]] at the University of Bath.
 
Many developers have contributed to Csound, most notably Istvan Varga, Gabriel Maldonado, Robin Whittle, Richard Karpen, Iain McCurdy, Michael Gogins, Matt Ingalls, Steven Yi, [[Richard Boulanger]], [[Victor Lazzarini]] and Joachim Heintz. Developed over many years, {{as of|2024|lc=y}}, it has nearly 1,700 [[unit generator]]s. One of its greatest strengths is that it is completely [[Modular programming|modular]] and [[Extensible programming|extensible]], by the user.

Csound is closely related to the underlying language for the [[MPEG-4 Structured Audio|Structured Audio]] extensions to [[MPEG-4]], [[Structured Audio Orchestra Language]] (SAOL).