Hi Joe,
removing the zacl gives the problem that new samples are constanly 
accumulated in the zak space but adding a zacl after every zar (only for it) do 
the trick... I think that I'll have a delay of at least 1 kr but it seems to 
work..

Thank you

>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: joe@bbeikaiwa.com
>Data: 23/02/2009 13.49
>A: 
>Ogg: [Csnd] Re: zak and instruments order
>
>Hi there,
>
>Yes, the instrument order is important. Every ksmps samples, csound 
>reads each instrument in turn, in numerical order. At the moment, in 
>your non-working example:
>
>instr 1: writes to zak 1
>instr 2: reads from zak 3 (nothing there yet), writes to zak 5
>instr 3: reads from zak 1, writes to zak 3
>instr 4: reads from zak 5 (nothing!), then zacl clears zak variables to 
>0 again.
>
>If you take out the zacl statement in instr 4 then it might work (I 
>think) but you would introduce a delays as there would be ksmps samples 
>between using zaw in instr 3 and zar in instr 2 (in your example at the 
>bottom of the page).
>
>I hope this explanation is clear (and I hope it's correct, for that matter)
>
>Joe
>
>vallste@libero.it wrote:
>> Hello,
>> one (stupid) question regarding the zak opcodes and the instruments 
order, 
>> I'm writing an orchestra that looks more or less like this:
>> 
>> instr 1
>> --some code--
>> zaw aout, 1
>> endin
>> 
>> instr 2
>> ain zar 1
>> --some code--
>> zaw aout, 3
>> endin
>> 
>> instr 3
>> ain zar 3
>> --some code--
>> zaw aout, 5
>> endin
>> 
>> instr 4 
>> aout zar  5
>> outs aout, aout
>> zacl 0, 5
>> endin
>> 
>> If I run it it works, but if i change za location only in instruments 2 
and 3 
>> (to have instr 3 before instr 2 in the signal path) like this:
>> 
>> instr 2
>> ain zar 3
>> --some code--
>> zaw aout, 5
>> endin
>> 
>> instr 3
>> ain zar 1
>> --some code--
>> zaw aout, 3
>> endin
>> 
>> No sound is produced.
>> It's the normal behaviour of zak patching system, so I've to keep the 
>> instruments in the same order of "signal path"...
>> or I'm missing (messing) something else in my code?
>> 
>> Ciao
>> 
>> Stefano
>> 
>> 
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>
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