Matt - 

 Thanks for posting a reply to my query. The f statement I am using is:

 f # 0 0 1 "nameofwretchedsample" 0 4 1 ,i.e:
 time 0,deferred alloc. to file size, gen01,"..",skiptime 0,format = 16 bit
shorts, read channel 1 (file is mono)

 Is this right?

 Setting the table size stills give "aiff file truncated by table size,
audio samps (silly #) requires table size (silly #)". Tweaking format and
channel params gives no joy either.

 The file is in no way corrupted (sndinfo reads it o.k., I can import and
play it on other sound apps) so I'm a bit confused as to why I can't get
this f statement to work correctly.

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