Acknowledgments

Heartfelt thanks are due, first of all, to Barry Vercoe for creating Csound, and to Max Mathews for laying the groundwork. Thanks go, in the same breath, to the team of developers and maintainers currently led by John ffitch, who have kept Csound relevant over the course of many years. Thanks to Richard Boulanger for his enthusiastic support of Csound and for his editorship of The Csound Book, which introduced many of us to Csound for the first time. Thanks to Andrés Cabrera for his ongoing development of CsoundQt, for his video tutorials, and not least for his work as the technical editor on this book. Thanks to Steven Yi, both for his ongoing development of blue and for his work as editor of The Csound Journal. Thanks to the regular contributors to the Csound mailing list, especially Victor Lazzarini and Michael Gogins, for their swift and cogent replies to my many technical questions. Thanks to Joachim Heintz, Iain McCurdy, Rory Walsh, and others for their contributions to the online Floss manual for Csound.

And finally, thanks to Bob Moog and other experts on technology who so generously took the time to educate me on the basics of music technology during my years at Keyboard. Without their assistance and support, this book never would have been written.