A new release of the Csound FLOSS manual is now available online:

• http://www.flossmanuals.net/csound/

The following is new:

• The chapter about Random has been moved as 01D to the BASICS section and has been significantly amended by Joachim Heintz and Iain McCurdy.
• In Chapter 05B Panning and Spatialization, Martin Neukom has been added a new section of new text with examples about Ambisonics. The included UDOs add new functionality, such as options for non-standard speaker configurations, when working with Ambisonics in Csound.
• There is a new chapter, 05K Analysis Transformation Synthesis (ATS), by Oscar Pablo di Liscia.
• Chapter 08B Csound and Arduino has been extended by Iain McCurdy.
• In section 10 (Csound Frontends) Rory Walsh has revised the chapter about Cabbage. In the same section, Stefani Bonetti and Menno Knevel have updated the chapter about WinXound.
• Iain McCurdy and Ed Costello have written a new chapter in section 10 about Web Based Csound.
• Victor Lazzarini has written an in-depth description about Developing Plugin Opcodes for Csound 6 for section 13 Extending Csound.
• Menno Knevel has added sections about Cmask, nGen, AthenaCL and Common Music for the appendix chapter about Methods of Writing Csound Scores.
• Iain McCurdy has revised and amended many existing chapters.

The CSD and source files are here:

http://files.csound-tutorial.net/floss_manual/Release05/csd_and_audio_rl5.zip

Thanks to all the authors for their valuable contributions. please let us know problems and suggestions.

Enjoy!

Joachim / Iain