"Matt J. Ingalls" wrote:

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whats the 'noheader' option?

raw output without soundfile header.

if its real-time then i think any header option or -h is ignored

in pd's csound~-object csound doesn't even know it runs in realtime; it just issues its standard blocking reads/writes from/to the supplied fifo-files. therefore the no-header flag is required and a default floating-point output range would really be appreciable; no problem to scale if i know which range to convert from! OTOH, if a 1:1 mapping from orc amplitudes to output amplitudes is defined behavior it's OK, too: then it's up to the user to stick to the desired output range within the orchestra.

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