Try Gabriel Maldonado's DirectCsound instead of Winsound if you want
realtime
http://www.agora.stm.it/G.Maldonado/home2.htm

If you wan't to use an official version try the windows console-version
(consound.zip) 
instead of winsound, in my experience this is much faster. 

Roger Klaveness

"Peter M. Traub" wrote:
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> hi there,
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> i'm using winsound for the first time on a 333 MHz pc with a SB AWE64 card. i'd like it to play back in realtime but no matter what the buffer size settings, the playback is not continuous, i.e. there are gaps in the sound playback directly related to the buffer size. is there any way to avoid this? also, does csound expect any sort of ratio or relationship between the -b and -B flags? furthermore, when going to disk, it still writes the file in realtime, even though its just a 10 second sine test, making it painfully slow. i would expect it to be much faster for something that simple when going straight to disk. am i wrong in expecting this? any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks.
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