Csound 6.x is EOL. With Csound 7, I get this

===========
victor@firebird debug % csound test.csd
Reading options from $HOME/.csound7rc
Reading CSD file:  test.csd
--Csound version 7.0 beta (double samples) Mar  7 2026
[commit: 32fe6c37f4d382e1b25d4a5fccf0e0fccc3ffa85]
Compiling Csound code...
...done
Elapsed time at end of code compilation: real: 0.009s, CPU: 0.006s
using libsndfile-1.2.2
graphics suppressed, ascii substituted
sr = 44100.0, kr = 1378.125, ksmps = 32
0dBFS level = 32768.0, A4 tuning = 440.0
audio buffered in 128 sample-frame blocks
not writing to sound disk
SECTION 1:
new alloc for instr 200:
mystring
B  0.000 ..  1.000 T  1.000 TT  1.000 M:      0.0      0.0
end of Performance
inactive allocs returned to freespace
  overall amps:      0.0      0.0
  overall samples out of range:        0        0
0 errors in performance
=============

So that is working.
========================
Prof. Victor Lazzarini
Maynooth University
Ireland






> On 11 Mar 2026, at 11:42, Ben Hackbarth  wrote:
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> I am running into issues with strget in the latest stable version (6.18.1_14.arm64_sequoia). More specifically, strget does not seem capable of pulling strings from p-fields as it once did.
> The csd below prints nothing for me at the terminal. Commit a1580f9cdf331c35dceb486f4231871ce0b00266 works fine, however; I get 'mystring' printed with puts as expected.
>
> Thanks for any insight, Ben
>
>
> 
> 
> --format=wav /tmp/assemblage.wav
> 
> 
> sr = 44100
> ksmps = 32
> nchnls = 2
>
>
> instr 200
> Sfilename   strget   p4
> puts Sfilename, 1
> endin
>
> 
>
> 
> i200 0.0 1 "mystring"
> e
> 
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as for csoundqt, tarmo did this release some weeks ago, with a stable 
csound 7 version, in my opinion:
https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/CsoundQt-7.0.0-beta2-MacOS.dmg
it should also show the new manual if you want to have it locally:
https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/csound7-manual-local.zip

hope we can have a "real" csound 7 release soon, so that it will be 
easily available for others.
	joachim

On 17/03/2026 21:06, Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
> Yes - how do we now install Csound7, and is there a CsoundQt that runs 
> with the latest version of the stable Csound7?
> 
> *- Dr.B*
> 
> *
> *
> 
> *Dr. Richard Boulanger*
> 
> Professor
> 
> Electronic Production and Design
> 
> *Berklee College of Music*
> 
> Professional Writing & Technology Division
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM Ben Hackbarth  > wrote:
> 
>     Thanks Victor. I hadn’t realised that version 7 was stable now. I
>     appreciate all of the hard work that went into version 7!
> 
> 
>     One reason that it was unclear that 6 is EOL and 7 is stable is that
>     ‘brew install csound’ installs version 6.18 on OSX.
> 
> 
>     Thanks and best, Ben
> 
> 
>     On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 at 12:00, Victor Lazzarini <000010b17ddd988e-
>     dmarc-request@listserv.heanet.ie      request@listserv.heanet.ie>> wrote:
> 
>         Csound 6.x is EOL. With Csound 7, I get this
> 
>         ===========
>         victor@firebird debug % csound test.csd
>         Reading options from $HOME/.csound7rc
>         Reading CSD file:  test.csd
>         --Csound version 7.0 beta (double samples) Mar  7 2026
>         [commit: 32fe6c37f4d382e1b25d4a5fccf0e0fccc3ffa85]
>         Compiling Csound code...
>         ...done
>         Elapsed time at end of code compilation: real: 0.009s, CPU: 0.006s
>         using libsndfile-1.2.2
>         graphics suppressed, ascii substituted
>         sr = 44100.0, kr = 1378.125, ksmps = 32
>         0dBFS level = 32768.0, A4 tuning = 440.0
>         audio buffered in 128 sample-frame blocks
>         not writing to sound disk
>         SECTION 1:
>         new alloc for instr 200:
>         mystring
>         B  0.000 ..  1.000 T  1.000 TT  1.000 M:      0.0      0.0
>         end of Performance
>         inactive allocs returned to freespace
>            overall amps:      0.0      0.0
>            overall samples out of range:        0        0
>         0 errors in performance
>         =============
> 
>         So that is working.
>         ========================
>         Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>         Maynooth University
>         Ireland
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>          > On 11 Mar 2026, at 11:42, Ben Hackbarth          > wrote:
>          >
>          > You don't often get email from hackbarth@gmail.com
>         . Learn why this is important *Warning*
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>         Mail System. Do not reply, click links or open attachments
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>          > Dear all,
>          >
>          > I am running into issues with strget in the latest stable
>         version (6.18.1_14.arm64_sequoia). More specifically, strget
>         does not seem capable of pulling strings from p-fields as it
>         once did.
>          > The csd below prints nothing for me at the terminal. Commit
>         a1580f9cdf331c35dceb486f4231871ce0b00266 works fine, however; I
>         get 'mystring' printed with puts as expected.
>          >
>          > Thanks for any insight, Ben
>          >
>          >
>          > 
>          > 
>          > --format=wav /tmp/assemblage.wav
>          > 
>          > 
>          > sr = 44100
>          > ksmps = 32
>          > nchnls = 2
>          >
>          >
>          > instr 200
>          > Sfilename   strget   p4
>          > puts Sfilename, 1
>          > endin
>          >
>          > 
>          >
>          > 
>          > i200 0.0 1 "mystring"
>          > e
>          > 
>          > 
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>         ríomhphost seo a úsáid, a scaipeadh, a dháileadh, a fhoilsiú nó
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>         sin in iúl dúinn láithreach trí ríomhphost a chur chuig
>         dataprotection@mu.ie
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>         do chóras.
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well the bug report is as always:
https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/issues

if the internal bug report link is not working, we need a bug report 
about this ...

On 18/03/2026 16:46, Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
> Note that the Feb06 CsoundQt with Beta 7.0 does not allow my students to 
> do real-time recording of the CsoundQt output. (push the red button)
> I do not think that one can send bug reports from that version either - 
> and so, this was not reported when we discovered it in class.  I do use 
> it for testing and love it, but.  We had to roll back in class 
> because my students could not "bounce" from it.
> 
> *- Dr.B*
> 
> *
> *
> 
> *Dr. Richard Boulanger*
> 
> Professor
> 
> Electronic Production and Design
> 
> *Berklee College of Music*
> 
> Professional Writing & Technology Division
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 11:36 AM joachim heintz  > wrote:
> 
>     as for csoundqt, tarmo did this release some weeks ago, with a stable
>     csound 7 version, in my opinion:
>     https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/
>     CsoundQt-7.0.0-beta2-MacOS.dmg      CsoundQt/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/CsoundQt-7.0.0-beta2-MacOS.dmg>
>     it should also show the new manual if you want to have it locally:
>     https://github.com/CsoundQt/CsoundQt/releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/
>     csound7-manual-local.zip      releases/download/v7.0.0-beta2/csound7-manual-local.zip>
> 
>     hope we can have a "real" csound 7 release soon, so that it will be
>     easily available for others.
>              joachim
> 
>     On 17/03/2026 21:06, Dr. Richard Boulanger wrote:
>      > Yes - how do we now install Csound7, and is there a CsoundQt that
>     runs
>      > with the latest version of the stable Csound7?
>      >
>      > *- Dr.B*
>      >
>      > *
>      > *
>      >
>      > *Dr. Richard Boulanger*
>      >
>      > Professor
>      >
>      > Electronic Production and Design
>      >
>      > *Berklee College of Music*
>      >
>      > Professional Writing & Technology Division
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM Ben Hackbarth
>     
>      > >> wrote:
>      >
>      >     Thanks Victor. I hadn’t realised that version 7 was stable now. I
>      >     appreciate all of the hard work that went into version 7!
>      >
>      >
>      >     One reason that it was unclear that 6 is EOL and 7 is stable
>     is that
>      >     ‘brew install csound’ installs version 6.18 on OSX.
>      >
>      >
>      >     Thanks and best, Ben
>      >
>      >
>      >     On Wed, 11 Mar 2026 at 12:00, Victor Lazzarini <000010b17ddd988e-
>      > dmarc-request@listserv.heanet.ie      request@listserv.heanet.ie>      
>      > request@listserv.heanet.ie >>
>     wrote:
>      >
>      >         Csound 6.x is EOL. With Csound 7, I get this
>      >
>      >         ===========
>      >         victor@firebird debug % csound test.csd
>      >         Reading options from $HOME/.csound7rc
>      >         Reading CSD file:  test.csd
>      >         --Csound version 7.0 beta (double samples) Mar  7 2026
>      >         [commit: 32fe6c37f4d382e1b25d4a5fccf0e0fccc3ffa85]
>      >         Compiling Csound code...
>      >         ...done
>      >         Elapsed time at end of code compilation: real: 0.009s,
>     CPU: 0.006s
>      >         using libsndfile-1.2.2
>      >         graphics suppressed, ascii substituted
>      >         sr = 44100.0, kr = 1378.125, ksmps = 32
>      >         0dBFS level = 32768.0, A4 tuning = 440.0
>      >         audio buffered in 128 sample-frame blocks
>      >         not writing to sound disk
>      >         SECTION 1:
>      >         new alloc for instr 200:
>      >         mystring
>      >         B  0.000 ..  1.000 T  1.000 TT  1.000 M:      0.0      0.0
>      >         end of Performance
>      >         inactive allocs returned to freespace
>      >            overall amps:      0.0      0.0
>      >            overall samples out of range:        0        0
>      >         0 errors in performance
>      >         =============
>      >
>      >         So that is working.
>      >         ========================
>      >         Prof. Victor Lazzarini
>      >         Maynooth University
>      >         Ireland
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >          > On 11 Mar 2026, at 11:42, Ben Hackbarth
>     
>      >              >> wrote:
>      >          >
>      >          > You don't often get email from hackbarth@gmail.com
>     
>      >              >. Learn why this is important *Warning*
>      >          > This email originated from outside of Maynooth
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>      >          > Dear all,
>      >          >
>      >          > I am running into issues with strget in the latest stable
>      >         version (6.18.1_14.arm64_sequoia). More specifically, strget
>      >         does not seem capable of pulling strings from p-fields as it
>      >         once did.
>      >          > The csd below prints nothing for me at the terminal.
>     Commit
>      >         a1580f9cdf331c35dceb486f4231871ce0b00266 works fine,
>     however; I
>      >         get 'mystring' printed with puts as expected.
>      >          >
>      >          > Thanks for any insight, Ben
>      >          >
>      >          >
>      >          > 
>      >          > 
>      >          > --format=wav /tmp/assemblage.wav
>      >          > 
>      >          > 
>      >          > sr = 44100
>      >          > ksmps = 32
>      >          > nchnls = 2
>      >          >
>      >          >
>      >          > instr 200
>      >          > Sfilename   strget   p4
>      >          > puts Sfilename, 1
>      >          > endin
>      >          >
>      >          > 
>      >          >
>      >          > 
>      >          > i200 0.0 1 "mystring"
>      >          > e
>      >          > 
>      >          > 
>      >
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