I'm adapting sounds I like in the Csound Catalog CD as part of learning the language (and learning how to create interesting sounds). I'm having trouble understanding why a modification I made to the Anthologies->Lyon->Glnoi instrument does not result in the same sound as the original. Specifically, the original instrument seems to pass the note to play in Hertz, and I modified the instrument to accept the octave/pitch notation and convert to Hertz with cpspch(). I don't understand why the otherwise identical instruments are creating obviously different sounds (I don't mean just the notes, but the amplitude and other characteristics of the sound as well). Here is the orchestra; instr 2 is the original, and instr 3 is my modified version. sr = 44100 kr = 4410 ksmps = 10 nchnls = 1 instr 2 ires1 = p4 ibf = .05 iamp = p5*32767 * 2.5 iseed = p6 ibw = p4*ibf kenv linseg 0,p3/2,iamp,p3/2,0 anoise randi 1.0, 13000, iseed ares1 reson anoise,ires1,ibw,1 ares2 reson ares1,ires1,ibw,1 out ares2*kenv endin instr 3 ires1 = cpspch(p4) ibf = .05 iamp = p5*32767 * 2.5 iseed = p6 ibw = p4*ibf kenv linseg 0,p3/2,iamp,p3/2,0 anoise randi 1.0, 13000, iseed ares1 reson anoise,ires1,ibw,1 ares2 reson ares1,ires1,ibw,1 out ares2*kenv endin Here is the score, playing what I thought should be equivalent notes: i2 0.0 1.7770 660.0000 0.4123 0.7022 i2 2.0 1.7770 440.0000 0.4123 0.7022 i2 4.0 1.7770 880.0000 0.4123 0.7022 i3 6.0 1.7770 8.09 0.4123 0.7022 i3 8.0 1.7770 9.04 0.4123 0.7022 i3 10.0 1.7770 9.09 0.4123 0.7022 What am I missing about why the second three notes don't sound like the first three? Thanks.... Toby www.ObverseMusic.com