GEN19 — Generate composite waveforms made up of weighted sums of simple sinusoids.
These subroutines generate composite waveforms made up of weighted sums of simple sinusoids. The specification of each contributing partial requires 4 p-fields using GEN19.
size -- number of points in the table. Must be a power of 2 or power-of-2 plus 1 (see f statement).
pna, pnb, etc. -- partial no. (relative to a fundamental that would occupy size locations per cycle) of sinusoid a, sinusoid b, etc. Must be positive, but need not be a whole number, i.e., non-harmonic partials are permitted. Partials may be in any order.
stra, strb, etc. -- strength of partials pna, pnb, etc. These are relative strengths, since the composite waveform may be rescaled later. Negative values are permitted and imply a 180 degree phase shift.
phsa, phsb, etc. -- initial phase of partials pna, pnb, etc., expressed in degrees.
dcoa, dcob, etc. -- DC offset of partials pna, pnb, etc. This is applied after strength scaling, i.e. a value of 2 will lift a 2-strength sinusoid from range [-2,2] to range [0,4] (before later rescaling).
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Here is a simple example of the GEN19 routine. It uses the file gen19.csd. It will generate a nice bell curve, here is its diagram:
Example 566. A simple example of the GEN19 routine.
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 gen19.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform </CsOptions> <CsInstruments> ; Initialize the global variables. sr = 44100 kr = 4410 ksmps = 10 nchnls = 1 ; Instrument #1. instr 1 ; Create an index over the length of our entire note. kcps init 1/p3 kndx phasor kcps ; Read Table #1 with our index. ifn = 1 ixmode = 1 kval table kndx, ifn, ixmode ; Generate a sine waveform, use our Table #1 value to ; vary its frequency by 100 Hz from its base frequency. ibasefreq = 440 kfreq = kval * 100 a1 oscil 20000, ibasefreq + kfreq, 2 out a1 endin </CsInstruments> <CsScore> ; Table #1: a bell curve (using GEN19). f 1 0 16384 -19 1 1 260 1 ; Table #2, a sine wave. f 2 0 16384 10 1 ; Play Instrument #1 for 3 seconds. i 1 0 3 e </CsScore> </CsoundSynthesizer>