Tito wrote:
> make_csdfile_script | csound /dev/stdin

That's the one that doesn't work for me because /dev/stdin
doesn't have a .csd extension; hence my ln -s workaround:
> ln -s /dev/stdin /tmp/stdin.csd
> make_csdfile_script | csound /tmp/stdin.csd

I'm on debian stable:
  Csound version 5.12 (double samples) Aug  5 2010
  libsndfile-1.0.17

OK, I've got lots of resources now for reading from stdin :-)

Suggestion: But /dev/stdin isn't necessarily portable across OS's;
  make_csdfile_script | csound -
might perhaps be neater, more standard, more portable ?

Anyway, back to my new soundfont-synth with no latency :-)

Peter Billam

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"Follow the charge, not the particle."  --  Richard Feynman
 from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949