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gauss — Gaussian distribution random number generator.

Description

Gaussian distribution random number generator. This is an x-class noise generator.

Syntax

ares gauss krange
ires gauss krange
kres gauss krange

Performance

krange -- the range of the random numbers (-krange to +krange). Outputs both positive and negative numbers.

For more detailed explanation of these distributions, see:

  1. C. Dodge - T.A. Jerse 1985. Computer music. Schirmer books. pp.265 - 286

  2. D. Lorrain. A panoply of stochastic cannons. In C. Roads, ed. 1989. Music machine . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT press, pp. 351 - 379.

Examples

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

Example 179. Example of the gauss 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 gauss.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
  ; Generate a random number between -1 and 1.
  ; krange = 1

  i1 gauss 1

  print i1
endin


</CsInstruments>
<CsScore>

; Play Instrument #1 for one second.
i 1 0 1
e


</CsScore>
</CsoundSynthesizer>


Its output should include a line like this: 

instr 1:  i1 = 0.252

See Also

seed, betarand, bexprnd, cauchy, exprand, linrand, pcauchy, poisson, trirand, unirand, weibull

Credits

Author: Paris Smaragdis
MIT, Cambridge
1995

Example written by Kevin Conder.

Existed in 3.30

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