Hi,
I have to say this is annoying.  I thought one of the tenets
of Csound was backward compatibility...

In my RotorOrgan, I generate a "Spring Reverb" with a
convoluttion from an impulse file.  This is raw 32-bit float
samples at 24000Hz (same as the csd's sample rate)
It worked fine from Csound5 up to 6.04.  I just upgraded
my Linux to 6.12, and it fails!

I load the file with an ftgen, using GEN01:

 	impulse ftgen 0, 0, 0, 1, "spring_reverb24.raw", 0, 6, 0

with the '6' representing 32-bit float.

In 6.12 I suddenly get:

soundin cannot open spring_reverb24.raw: File contains data in an unknown format.
ftable 102: Failed to open file spring_reverb24.raw
f102     0.00     0.00     1.00  "spring_reverb24.raw" ...
INIT ERROR in instr 10 line 871: ftgen error
 from file hammond.csd (1)
impulse	ftgen.iS	0	0	0	1	"spring_reverb24.raw"	06	0	

Huh?

I went to the 6.12 manual and see under GEN01:

 format -- if positive it is ignored, but if negative specifies the audio format of a raw file.


        -1 - 8-bit signed character
        -2 - 8-bit A-law bytes
        -3 - 8-bit U-law bytes
        -4 - 16-bit short integers
        -5 - 32-bit long integers
        -6 - 32-bit floats
        -7 - 8-bit unsigned character
        -8 - 24-bit integers
        -9 - 64-bit doubles

*Negative*!! WHY?

Anyway, I changed it to '-6'.  So now I get:

ftable 102: invalid sample format: -6
f102     0.00     0.00     1.00  "spring_reverb24.raw" ...
INIT ERROR in instr 10 line 871: ftgen error
 from file hammond.csd (1)
impulse	ftgen.iS	0	0	0	1	"spring_reverb24.raw"	0-6	0	

So now I have no idea...
(And looking at the report, the 'skip' parameter before the format
seems to haver disappeared!)
	-- Pete --

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