writescratch

writescratch — writes a value into the scratchpad of the instance of an instrument.

Description

The writescratch opcode writes one of four scalar values to be stored in the instance of an instrument.

Syntax

writescratchival[, index]

Initialisation

ival -- variable to write.

index -- which value to write, defaulting to zero.

Examples

Here is an example of the writescratch opcode. It uses the file readscratch.csd.

Example 1056. Example of the writescratch 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
-n
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

sr = 44100
ksmps = 32
nchnls = 2
0dbfs  = 1

instr 1

ilast readscratch
      writescratch p2
ilen  readscratch 1
      writescratch p3, 1
      printf_i "last run at %f for %f\n", ilen, ilast, ilen
endin

</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>
i 1 0 1
i 1 2 3
i 1 6 10
e
</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>


See Also

readscratch,

Credits

Author: John ffitch
March 2013

New in Csound version 6.00