Meredith was heard:

> One fact being:  aiff and wave file formats are UNIX and IBM native, not
> Macintosh file formats.

Whether this is true or not, AIFF WAVE and SDII have become the
standard, not snd. Lots of software support .snd import and export
but none use it for sound or music production.

> What must I do to get one toot out of Csound on my machine, if indeed it is
> possible?  Since I haven't been able to do that much yet, I think you folk
> need to re-examine your system requirements and your set-up instructions to
> correspond to the facts.

Who is 'you folk' ?

I'll just say that Matt Ingall's Csound.PPC is superb, how
much csound and it's Macintosh version has grown in the last
year is incredible. We're heading in the right directions,
I hope we keep up the good work, Matt, please know is very much
appreciated.

Csound 881 and Csound 68k have been discussed in a recent tread.
Didn't you recommend it? Starting with Csound is always hard and
frustrating, don't give up.

I first ran Csound on a Quadra, it worked then.

The tutorial should look like this:

;toot1.orc:
sr = 44100
kr = 4410
ksmps = 10
nchnls = 1

instr 1
a1 oscil 10000, 440, 1
out a1
endin

;toot1.sco
f1 0 4096 10 1  ; use "gen1" to compute a sine wave
i1 0 4    ; run "instr 1" from time 0 for 4 seconds
e     ; indicate the "end" of the score

hope this helps,

Eloy
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