On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:22, Panos Katergiathis wrote:

> csound -s -odac -b4096 -B16384 -m135 composition.csd
> 
> ... and the piece starts playing, i listen to some notes but later on i 
> start getting severe pauses and cracks and all sorts of noises.
> 
> My audio card is a M-Audio Firewire 410. As you probably know, it 
> supports ASIO and it shouldn't have no problems of this sort, but how do 
> i tell CSound about it?

Just using "-odac" will probably request the use of the MME interface,
so you may want to check the list of devices with something like -odac100,
and then use a device number that is really an ASIO interface.
To reduce latency, use smaller buffer sizes, for example -b256 -B1024.