Well, it's been sort of a crazy day, but I thought I'd check
if your example behaved the same on my machine.

It doesn't!  In both Haiku and Linux (6.14 and6.13 respectively)
I hear the whole phrase.

Then, on Linux, I thought I'd verify it was *exactly* the same as
the actual wav, so I double-clicked the file.  The audio player (xplayer)
chopped out the "The"!!!  'aplay' renders the whole thing as it should.
Then I tried xplayer again... now it's also playing the whole thing!!

So whatever is doing it in your system, it may not be all pvstanal's
fault.  All very odd, though.  A crazy day... (:-))

	--Pete --


On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 12:32:04PM +0100, joachim heintz wrote:
> in the flollowing simple example it can be heard that at the first rund the
> beginning of the table is skipped: it starts with "quick" instead of "the
> quick".
> 
> bernard recently reported the same.  i cannot find anything about this on
> the manual page.  so i am wondering: is it a small bug?  or is it necessary?
> (then we should write a note in the manual page.)
> 
> if possible, i'd suggest that an additional parameter about where to start
> reading in the table would be nice to have.
> 
> best -
> 	joachim
> 
> 
> gifil     ftgen     0, 0, 0, 1, "fox.wav", 0, 0, 1
> 
> instr 1
> iTimeScal =         p4
> fsig      pvstanal  iTimeScal, 1, 1, gifil
> aout      pvsynth   fsig
>           outs      aout, aout
> endin
>