chirp is a project still very much in early development. The idea of chirp is to provide a comfortable, stable, and performative front end for the Csound Audio Programming Language, with features commonly found in other code editors such as linting, workspace management, and refactoring tools. This is to give Csound programmers a more productive experience, and have a tool that can make Csound more accessible to beginners.

Again, this project is in very early stages, but to build the project I would recommend installing JUCE and using the Projucer. This assumes you have Csound installed on your system.

Open chirp.jucer with Projucer, open in IDE, and build. The jucer project is set up to look in the regular location for Csound, that is C:/Program Files/Csound6_x65/lib for csound64.lib and C:/Program Files/Csound6_x64/include/csound for csound.hpp. If you are using a custom installation of Csound or yours is on a different path, update these paths in the jucer.

I have not set up jucer configurations for these systems yet, however it should be simple enough to link to Csound - see examples here.

• Playback and rendering of Csound files.
• Editing Csound code with syntax highlighting, linting, warnings, and errors showing in the editor.
• Refactoring and code navigation.
• Workspace management.
• Highly customisable and accessible.
• Easy access to Csound documentation (the Csound manual).

• Integration with Git.
• Integration with the Csound Web IDE.
• Support for live coding with Csound.

• Extending the Csound language.
• Adding GUI features to Csound, like CsoundQt, Cabbage, Blue.