Description

cabasa is a semi-physical model of a cabasa sound. It is one of the PhISEM percussion opcodes. PhISEM (Physically Informed Stochastic Event Modeling) is an algorithmic approach for simulating collisions of multiple independent sound producing objects.

Syntax

ares cabasa iamp, idettack [, inum] [, idamp] [, imaxshake]

Initialization

iamp -- Amplitude of output. Note: As these instruments are stochastic, this is only a approximation.

idettack -- period of time over which all sound is stopped

inum (optional) -- The number of beads, teeth, bells, timbrels, etc. If zero, the default value is 512.

idamp (optional) -- the damping factor, as part of this equation:

The default damping_amount is 0.997 which means that the default value of idamp is -0.5. The maximum damping_amount is 1.0 (no damping). This means the maximum value for idamp is 1.0.

The recommended range for idamp is usually below 75% of the maximum value.

imaxshake (optional) -- amount of energy to add back into the system. The value should be in range 0 to 1.

Examples

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

<CsoundSynthesizer>
<CsOptions>
; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
; Audio out   Audio in    No messages
-odac           -iadc     -d     ;;;RT audio I/O
; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
; -o cabasa.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
</CsOptions>
<CsInstruments>

;orchestra ---------------

  sr =           44100
  kr =            4410
  ksmps =              10
  nchnls =               1

          instr 01                  ;an example of a cabasa
a1      cabasa p4, 0.01
          out a1
          endin


</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>

;score -------------------

   i1 0 1 26000
   e


</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>

See Also

crunch, sandpaper, sekere, stix

Credits

New in Csound version 4.07

Added notes by Rasmus Ekman on May 2002.