On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:32, Art Hunkins wrote:

> FWIW, CsoundAV can actually do real time audio output and write to file
> concurrently, without the fout.
> 
> As described in the AV manual, it's possible to do both from the command
> line (using MME or DirectSound), but unfortunately, the file written is raw
> (headerless) and cannot be played by media players I'm acquainted with.

With fout you can write multi-channel files in any of WAV, AIFF, raw, and
IRCAM file types, in 9 different sample formats. You are also not limited
to writing in the same format as the real time output, for example it is
possible to play 16 bit samples on "dac", while writing a floating point
WAV file.