Another nice thing about Csound is that if you want to start doing C level dsp in baby steps, extending Csound is very straightforward. MUCH easier than adding

Another nice thing about Csound is that if you want to start doing C level dsp in baby steps, extending Csound is very straightforward. MUCH easier than adding objects in Max or PD for example. Max and PD externals require a ton of platform specific boilerplate.