peak — Maintains the output equal to the highest absolute value received.
These opcodes maintain the output k-rate variable as the peak absolute level so far received.
kres -- Output equal to the highest absolute value received so far. This is effectively an input to the opcode as well, since it reads kres in order to decide whether to write something higher into it.
ksig -- k-rate input signal.
asig -- a-rate input signal.
Here is an example of the peak opcode. It uses the file peak.csd, and beats.wav.
Example 618. Example of the peak opcode.
See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.
<CsoundSynthesizer> <CsOptions> ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform ; Audio out Audio in -odac -iadc ;;;RT audio I/O ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below: ; -o peak.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform </CsOptions> <CsInstruments> ; Initialize the global variables. sr = 44100 kr = 44100 ksmps = 1 nchnls = 1 ; Instrument #1 - play an audio file. instr 1 ; Capture the highest amplitude in the "beats.wav" file. asig soundin "beats.wav" kp peak asig ; Print out the peak value once per second. printk 1, kp out asig endin </CsInstruments> <CsScore> ; Play Instrument #1, the audio file, for three seconds. i 1 0 3 e </CsScore> </CsoundSynthesizer>
Its output should include lines like this:
i 1 time 0.00002: 4835.00000 i 1 time 1.00002: 29312.00000 i 1 time 2.00002: 32767.00000