>
> 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.

I'm not sure why it is failing, but if you transcribe here
the
error messages printed to the PD console, I can try and
see what is the matter.

> 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.
-+rtaudio=coreaudio -+buffnos=2  -B512 -b512
You can experiment with -B and -b to get the smallest
values without dropouts (-B is generally >= -b)

> 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.

Add a .profile (if you are in10.4)  file to your home
directory,
with the line

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

to set the /usr/local/bin directory to your path (you can
add other directories as well (separated by : )

> 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.

Ask away!

> Many thanks
> Peiman
>
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