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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey John Hall [mailto:jjhall@erols.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 3:37 PM
> To: csound
> Subject: CD formats and does diskin take linear octave input
> 
> 
> Hello All,
>                 I know very little about wave formats and so am
>               puzzled by the fact that my CDs sometimes will not
>               be recognized by some CD players. This AM one failed to
>               be recognized in a friend's player, yet when I checked
>               the disk on Fischer, Sony, and JVC, sytems at a local
>               emporium, the CD played back fine. Consequently, I'm a
>               little befuddled. (I burn the CDs with a Windows.PCM.wav
>               format.)
>                 On another topic I wanted to inquire about the pitch 
>               change parameter of diskin. I did succeed in getting it
>               to play the example through a string of 12 pitch classes
>               with accepteble results, but when I call it into a piece
>               I get it 2 octaves below, and find it tricky to get on 
>               pitch.
>               I've found some kludgey ways around the problem 
> but suspect
>               that I've missed something that's in the black 
> box of      
>               diskin. It seems reasonable to use linear 
> octave notation
>               but I don't know what diskin expects; the manual says
>               sig*2 for ocatve and sig*.5 for lower oct. etc. buuuuut.
>               Anyway, Luck to all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>                                Jeff Hall
>                                   (a.k.a., the troglodyte)