csound-plugins / csound-plugins

Plugins for csound

External plugins for csound

This is a repository for plugins for csound. It includes multiple plugins, where each plugin contains a series of opcodes.

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Documentation of all plugins

Go to Documentation

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Plugins in this repository

klib

very efficient hashtables (dictionaries) and other data structures for csound

poly

Parallel and sequential multiplexing opcodes, they enable the creation and control of multiple instances of a csound opcode

beosc

additive synthesis implementing the loris model sine+noise

else

A miscellaneous collection of effects (distortion, saturation, ring-modula generators (low freq. noise, chaos attractors, etc), envelope generators, etc.

jsfx

jsfx support in csound, allows any REAPER's jsfx plugin to be loaded and controlled inside csound

pathtools

opcodes to handle paths and filenames in a cross-platform manner

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Installation

The recommended way to install plugins is via risset (https://github.com/csound-plugins/risset). Risset itself can be installed via pip install risset.

Then, to install any plugin:

risset update
risset install <pluginname>

For example, to install klib and poly:

risset install klib poly

Using risset to install plugins also ensures integration with other tools like CsoundQt. Risset also can be used to show manual pages, list opcodes, etc.

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Manual Installation

Plugins can be manually downloaded from the releases page:

https://github.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins/releases

The binaries need to be copied to the plugins directory. The directory needs to be created if it does not exist.

Platform	Csound Version	Plugins Path
linux	6	$HOME/.local/lib/csound/6.0/plugins64
linux	7	$HOME/.local/lib/csound/7.0/plugins64
windows	6	C:\\Users\\$USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\csound\\6.0\\plugins64
windows	7	C:\\Users\\$USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\csound\\7.0\\plugins64
macos	6	$HOME/Library/csound/6.0/plugins64
macos	7	$HOME/Library/csound/7.0/plugins64

Note for Mac Users

You will probably have to overcome Apple's security mechanism to use the plugins. Right-click on each plugin and choose "Open with Terminal". Confirm "Open" in the dialog panel.

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Build

git clone  https://github.com/csound-plugins/csound-plugins
cd csound-plugins
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --parallel
cmake --install .