>> 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!


 Dear Victor,

  Many thanks for your replayl. It is much appreciated. Below is the 
error message I get in pd when opening help-csoundapi~.pd.

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  csoundapi~ 1.0                                                         

  A PD csound class using the Csound 5.00.0 API                          

  (c) V Lazzarini, 2005                                                  


 csapi_demo.csd
 csoundapi~ warning: could not compile
 help-csoundapi~.pd 4 0 39 3 (adc~->csoundapi~) connection failed
 help-csoundapi~.pd 4 1 39 3 (adc~->csoundapi~) connection failed
 help-csoundapi~.pd 39 3 0 1 (csoundapi~->dac~) connection failed
 help-csoundapi~.pd 39 4 24 0 (csoundapi~->message) connection failed
 help-csoundapi~.pd 39 5 25 0 (csoundapi~->bng) connection failed
 csoundapi~ run: 1
 csoundapi~ warning: orchestra not compiled
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  It looks like the .csd file is not located or recognized. But it is in 
fact in the same folder as the .pd help file so there shouldn't be a 
problem. I did install pd after installing csound perhaps it is related 
(?). I will be very happy when this works!

 Thanks again for your help
 All the best

  Peiman