Information can be found here:

http://csounds.com/manual/html/f.html

p4 -- Number of the GEN routine to be called (see GEN ROUTINES). A
negative value will cause rescaling to be omitted.



On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stefan Thomas
 wrote:
> Dear community,
> I've seen somwhere (I can't remember where) that some people use sometimes
> negative gen-sizes. I didn't understand in which cases someone should use
> nevative gen-sizes.
>

girtos2        ftgen    0,0,-6,-2,    1,    2.89,    4.95,    6.99,    8.01,    9.02

>From the same manual page:

"Historically, due to older platform constraints, Csound could only
accept tables whose size was a power of two. This limitation has been
removed in recent versions, and you can freely create tables of any
size. However, to create a table whose size is not a power of two (or
power of two plus one), you must specify the size as a negative
number."



On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Thomas
 wrote:
> Sorry, I don't mean the number of the genroutine but p3, the size of the
> table.
> In the meantime I've found one example:
>
> girtos2        ftgen    0,0,-6,-2,    1,    2.89,    4.95,    6.99,    8.01,
> 9.02
>
> These are partial relations for additive synthesis.
>
>
> 2012/8/2 Steven Yi 
>>
>> Information can be found here:
>>
>> http://csounds.com/manual/html/f.html
>>
>> p4 -- Number of the GEN routine to be called (see GEN ROUTINES). A
>> negative value will cause rescaling to be omitted.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stefan Thomas
>>  wrote:
>> > Dear community,
>> > I've seen somwhere (I can't remember where) that some people use
>> > sometimes
>> > negative gen-sizes. I didn't understand in which cases someone should
>> > use
>> > nevative gen-sizes.
>> >
>>
>>
>> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>>             https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
>> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
>> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk with body "unsubscribe
>> csound"
>>
>

another read option:
http://en.flossmanuals.net/csound/d-function-tables/
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	j

Am 02.08.2012 18:38, schrieb Stefan Thomas:
>
> Those who can read (and do it) are in advantage!
> Thanks for Your patience!
>
> 2012/8/2 Steven Yi >
>
>      From the same manual page:
>
>     "Historically, due to older platform constraints, Csound could only
>     accept tables whose size was a power of two. This limitation has been
>     removed in recent versions, and you can freely create tables of any
>     size. However, to create a table whose size is not a power of two (or
>     power of two plus one), you must specify the size as a negative
>     number."
>
>
>
>     On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Stefan Thomas
>     >
>     wrote:
>      > Sorry, I don't mean the number of the genroutine but p3, the size
>     of the
>      > table.
>      > In the meantime I've found one example:
>      >
>      > girtos2        ftgen    0,0,-6,-2,    1,    2.89,    4.95,
>       6.99,    8.01,
>      > 9.02
>      >
>      > These are partial relations for additive synthesis.
>      >
>      >
>      > 2012/8/2 Steven Yi >
>      >>
>      >> Information can be found here:
>      >>
>      >> http://csounds.com/manual/html/f.html
>      >>
>      >> p4 -- Number of the GEN routine to be called (see GEN ROUTINES). A
>      >> negative value will cause rescaling to be omitted.
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Stefan Thomas
>      >>      > wrote:
>      >> > Dear community,
>      >> > I've seen somwhere (I can't remember where) that some people use
>      >> > sometimes
>      >> > negative gen-sizes. I didn't understand in which cases someone
>     should
>      >> > use
>      >> > nevative gen-sizes.
>      >> >
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>      >> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
>      >> Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
>      >> To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk
>      with body "unsubscribe
>      >> csound"
>      >>
>      >
>
>
>     Send bugs reports to the Sourceforge bug tracker
>     https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=81968&atid=564599
>     Discussions of bugs and features can be posted here
>     To unsubscribe, send email sympa@lists.bath.ac.uk
>      with body "unsubscribe csound"
>
>