Hi Shawn, Unforunately the -L stdin feature doesn't work on Windows, at least on 2000 and XP (not sure about 98/ME). It's a problem of how Windows implements pipes. I'm not sure if there's a program yet made using the API which uses that to feed events to Csound, but without something like that, I'm afraid there isn't any way to feed score to a running Csound live like you are trying to do. steven On 12/8/05, shawn@shawn-and-kathleen.net wrote: > I'm using CSound5 on Windows 2000. I'm trying to use the > -L option to read score events from the command line, but > it doesn't seem to be working. It looks like it compiles > the orchestra OK, then it prints: > > ... > orch now loaded > stdmode = 00000000 Linefd = 0 > audio buffered in 4096 sample-frame blocks > PortAudio V19-devel > PortAudio: selected output device 'Microsoft Sound Mapper > - Output' > writing 8192-byte blks of shorts to dac > SECTION 1: > ftable 1: > ftable 2: > > At this point it looks like I can start typing score > events. But when I type a score event, it isn't even > echoed to the command window. > > This is the command line I'm using: > > csound32 -odac -Lstdin foscil.orc midi.sco > > midi.sco just generates some wave tables and then waits > (Don't be fooled by the name, I'm not using MIDI): > > f1 0 4096 10 1 > f2 0 4096 10 1 .5 .333 .25 .2 .166 .142 .125 .111 .1 > .09 .083 .076 .071 .066 .062 > > f0 3600 > > Any idea what's wrong here? Do I need another command > line option or something? > > thanks, > > Shawn > > -- > Shawn O'Rourke > shawn@shawn-and-kathleen.net > -- > Send bugs reports to this list. > To unsubscribe, send email to csound-unsubscribe@lists.bath.ac.uk >