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<refentry id="maca">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>maca</refentrytitle>
  </refmeta>
 
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>maca</refname>

    <refpurpose>
      Multiply and accumulate a-rate signals only.
      <indexterm id="IndexMaca"><primary>maca</primary></indexterm>
    </refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      Multiply and accumulate a-rate signals only.
    </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Syntax</title>
    <synopsis>ar <command>maca</command> asig1 [, asig2] [, asig3] [, asig4] [, asig5] [...]</synopsis>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Performance</title>
    <para>
      <emphasis>asig1, asig2, ...</emphasis> -- a-rate input signals
    </para>

    <para>
      <emphasis>maca</emphasis> multiplies and accumulates a-rate signals only. It is equivalent to:
      <literallayout>
        ar = asig1 + asig2*asig3 + asig4+asig5 + ...
      </literallayout>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>See Also</title>
    <para>
      <link linkend="mac"><citetitle>mac</citetitle></link>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Credits</title>
    <para>
      <simplelist>
        <member>Author: &namejohn;</member>
        <member>University of Bath, Codemist, Ltd.</member>
        <member>Bath, UK</member>
        <member>May 1999</member>
      </simplelist>
    </para>

    <para>New in Csound version 3.54</para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>
