On Thursday 02 March 2006 22:17, Art Hunkins wrote:

> Thanks, Istvan. I'm glad *someone* remembers these things!
> 
> I also see that this is the default in .csoundrc - good idea. (I overrode
> this default in <CsOptions>, which is why I didn't get the value displayed.)
> 
> Could someone please add this fact (adding 128 to -m for render time
> display) to the help docs?

The -m flags are displayed by 'csound --help', although without detailed
explanation:

-m N    tty message level. Sum of:
                1=note amps, 2=out-of-range msg, 4=warnings
                0/32/64/96=note amp format (raw,dB,colors)
                128=print benchmark information

The HTML manual includes this information as well, but it is somewhat
confusing as -m is documented twice. In the first case, the manual only
mentions the old 1, 2, and 4 flags, while the more recent additions are
listed later in "Csound5 Command-line Flags":

-m NUM, --messagelevel=NUM
    Message level for standard (terminal) output. Takes the sum of any of
    the following values:
        o 1 = note amplitude messages
        o 2 = samples out of range message
        o 4 = warning messages
        o 128 = print benchmark information
    And exactly one of these to select note amplitude format:
        o 0 = raw amplitudes
        o 32 = dB, no colors
        o 64 = dB, out of range highlighted with red
        o 96 = dB, all colors

Note: color displays on the console are not supported on Windows.