In addition to the core code developed by Barry L. 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:
Table 1. Contributors
| Mike Berry |
| Eli Breder |
| Andrés Cabrera |
| Michael Casey |
| Michael Clark |
| Perry Cook |
| Sean Costello |
| Rasmus Ekman |
| Richard Dobson |
| Mark Dolson |
| Dan Ellis |
| Tom Erbe |
| John ffitch |
| Bill Gardner |
| Michael Gogins |
| Matt Ingalls |
| Richard Karpen |
| Victor Lazzarini |
| Allan Lee |
| David Macintyre |
| Gabriel Maldonado |
| Max Mathews |
| Hans Mikelson |
| Peter Neubäcker |
| Peter Nix |
| Jean Piché |
| Ville Pulkki |
| John Ramsdell |
| Marc Resibois |
| Rob Shaw |
| Paris Smaragdis |
| Greg Sullivan |
| Istvan Varga |
| Bill Verplank |
| Robin Whittle |
| Steven Yi |
The official manual was compiled from the canonical Csound Manual sources maintained by John ffitch, Richard Boulanger, Jean Piché, Peter Nix, and David M. Boothe. The Alternative Csound Reference Manual was maintained by Kevin Conder. The Canonical Csound Reference Manual is maintained by the Csound community.