Hello all,

First of all I'd like to thank all who have helped me with problems in the past and those who have contributed to the release of csound5 which is truely inspiring. I had almost given up using csound after changing from pc to mac, due to the slownes of realtime performance. Recently I installed the latest binary release of csound5 for osx tiger. It seems to work much faster and more importantly without crashing. I also love the fact that there can be multi instances of csound. 

I do however have a few questions and would be very grateful for any advice. 

1- Everything seems to have been installed successfully (I used the automatic full installation which includes csoundapi~). I open the example file for Csoundapi~ in pd and the external is recognized. However I am unable to compile the csd example. I get the message compilation failed every time. I have tried to write the full path of the csd file but it does not make any difference. since the fltk gui is particularly slow I would very much like to use pd for controlling midi instruments but have not yet been able to get it to work on os x.

2- I would be grateful for any suggestion as to what is the best flagline for real-time performance using os x coraudio? The usual line does not seem to work. 

3- Because I am not yet very familiar to mac os I am not sure what is the equivalent of the environmental variables on os x. I am running csound from within blue so it would be nice not to have to write the entire path.

I am sure I will have to come back with tons of questions in the future (!) so apologies in advance for these newbie questions. But any help is very much appreciated. 

Many thanks       
Peiman