In addition to the core code developed by Barry Vercoe at M.I.T., a large part of the Csound code was modified, developed and extended by an independent group of programmers, composers and scientists. Copyright to this code is held by the respective authors: Mike Berry Eli Breder Andres Cabrera Michael Casey Michael Clark Perry Cook Sean Costello Richard Dobson Mark Dolson Rasmus Ekman Dan Ellis Tom Erbe John ffitch Bill Gardner Michael Gogins Matt Ingalls Richard Karpen Anthony Kozar Victor Lazzarini Allan Lee David Macintyre Gabriel Maldonado Max Mathews Hans Mikelson Peter Neubacker Peter Nix Jean Piche Ville Pulkki Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu John Ramsdell Marc Resibois Rob Shaw Paris Smaragdis Greg Sullivan Istvan Varga Bill Verplank Robin Whittle Steven Yi The previous version of this manual was compiled from the canonical Csound Manual sources maintained by John ffitch, Richard Boulanger, Jean Piche, and David Boothe. The Alternative Csound Reference Manual is maintained by Kevin Conder.