<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>GEN21</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.76.1" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="ScoregensTop.html" title="Score Statements and GEN Routines" /> <link rel="prev" href="GEN20.html" title="GEN20" /> <link rel="next" href="GEN23.html" title="GEN23" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">GEN21</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GEN20.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Score Statements and GEN Routines</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GEN23.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry" title="GEN21"> <a id="GEN21"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexGEN21" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">GEN21</span> </h2> <p>GEN21 — Generates tables of different random distributions. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="idp77917352"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> This generates tables of different random distributions. (See also <a class="link" href="betarand.html" title="betarand"><em class="citetitle">betarand</em></a>, <a class="link" href="bexprnd.html" title="bexprnd"><em class="citetitle">bexprnd</em></a>, <a class="link" href="cauchy.html" title="cauchy"><em class="citetitle">cauchy</em></a>, <a class="link" href="exprand.html" title="exprand"><em class="citetitle">exprand</em></a>, <a class="link" href="gauss.html" title="gauss"><em class="citetitle">gauss</em></a>, <a class="link" href="linrand.html" title="linrand"><em class="citetitle">linrand</em></a>, <a class="link" href="pcauchy.html" title="pcauchy"><em class="citetitle">pcauchy</em></a>, <a class="link" href="poisson.html" title="poisson"><em class="citetitle">poisson</em></a>, <a class="link" href="trirand.html" title="trirand"><em class="citetitle">trirand</em></a>, <a class="link" href="unirand.html" title="unirand"><em class="citetitle">unirand</em></a>, and <a class="link" href="weibull.html" title="weibull"><em class="citetitle">weibull</em></a>) </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Syntax"> <a id="idp77978576"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>f</strong></span> # time size 21 type level [arg1 [arg2]]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Initialization"> <a id="idp77979624"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>time</em></span> and <span class="emphasis"><em>size</em></span> are the usual GEN function arguments. <span class="emphasis"><em>level</em></span> defines the amplitude. Note that GEN21 is not self-normalizing as are most other GEN functions. <span class="emphasis"><em>type</em></span> defines the distribution to be used as follow: </p> <div class="itemizedlist"> <ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"> <li class="listitem"> <p>1 = Uniform (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>2 = Linear (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>3 = Triangular (positive and negative numbers)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>4 = Exponential (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>5 = Biexponential (positive and negative numbers)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>6 = Gaussian (positive and negative numbers)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>7 = Cauchy (positive and negative numbers)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>8 = Positive Cauchy (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>9 = Beta (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>10 = Weibull (positive numbers only)</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>11 = Poisson (positive numbers only)</p> </li> </ul> </div> <p> Of all these cases only 9 (Beta) and 10 (Weibull) need extra arguments. Beta needs two arguments and Weibull one. </p> <p> If <span class="emphasis"><em>type</em></span> = 6, the random numbers in the ftable follow a normal distribution centered around 0.0 (mu = 0.0) with a variance (sigma) of <span class="emphasis"><em>level</em></span> / 3.83. Thus more than 99.99% of the random values generated are in the range -<span class="emphasis"><em>level</em></span> to +<span class="emphasis"><em>level</em></span>. The default value for <span class="emphasis"><em>level</em></span> is 1 (sigma = 0.261). If a mean value different of 0.0 is desired, this mean value has to be added to the generated numbers. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp77988056"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> </p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 1024 21 1 <span class="comment">; Uniform (white noise)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 1024 21 6 <span class="comment">; Gaussian (mu=0.0, sigma=1/3.83=0.261)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 1024 21 6 5.745 <span class="comment">; Gaussian (mu=0.0, sigma=5.745/3.83=1.5)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 1024 21 9 1 1 2 <span class="comment">; Beta (note that level precedes arguments)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 1024 21 10 1 2 <span class="comment">; Weibull</span></pre> </div> <p> All of the above additions were designed by the author between May and December 1994, under the supervision of Dr. Richard Boulanger. </p> <p> Here is a complete example of the GEN21 routine. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/gen21.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">gen21.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idp77993472"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 1057. Example of the GEN21 routine.</strong> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <p>See the sections <a class="link" href="UsingRealTime.html" title="Real-Time Audio"><em class="citetitle">Real-time Audio</em></a> and <a class="link" href="CommandFlags.html" title="Csound command line"><em class="citetitle">Command Line Flags</em></a> for more information on using command line flags.</p> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="csdtag"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsOptions></span> <span class="comment">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> -odac <span class="comment">;;;realtime audio out</span> <span class="comment">;-iadc ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too</span> <span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="comment">; -o gen21.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsOptions></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="ohdr">sr</span> <span class="op">=</span> 44100 <span class="ohdr">ksmps</span> <span class="op">=</span> 32 <span class="ohdr">nchnls</span> <span class="op">=</span> 2 <span class="ohdr">0dbfs</span> <span class="op">=</span> 1 <span class="oblock">instr</span> 1 ifn <span class="op">=</span> p4 isize <span class="op">=</span> <span class="opc">ftlen</span>(ifn) <span class="opc">prints</span> "TABLE NUMBER<span class="op">:</span> <span class="op">%</span>d\n", ifn <span class="opc">prints</span> "Index\tValue\n" iindex <span class="op">=</span> 0 <span class="comment">;start loop</span> <span class="olabel">begin_loop</span><span class="op">:</span> ivalue <span class="opc">tab_i</span> iindex, ifn <span class="opc">prints</span> "<span class="op">%</span>d<span class="op">:</span>\t<span class="op">%</span>f\n", iindex, ivalue iindex <span class="op">=</span> iindex <span class="op">+</span> 1 <span class="octrl">if</span> (iindex <span class="op"><</span> isize) <span class="octrl">igoto</span> <span class="olabel">begin_loop</span> <span class="comment">;produce sound - and repeat it 10 times so you can hear the patterns: </span> aphase <span class="opc">phasor</span> 10<span class="op">/</span>10 <span class="comment">;play all 32 values 10x over 10 seconds</span> aphase <span class="op">=</span> aphase<span class="op">*</span>isize <span class="comment">;step through table</span> afrq <span class="opc">table</span> aphase, p4 <span class="comment">;read table number</span> asig <span class="opc">poscil</span> .5, (afrq<span class="op">*</span>500)<span class="op">+</span>1000,10 <span class="comment">;scale values of table 500 times, add 1000 Hz</span> <span class="opc">outs</span> asig , asig <span class="comment">;so we can distinguish the different tables </span> <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsScore></span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>1 0 32 21 1 <span class="comment">;Uniform (white noise)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>2 0 32 21 6 <span class="comment">;Gaussian (mu=0.0, sigma=1/3.83=0.261)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>3 0 32 21 6 5.745 <span class="comment">;Gaussian (mu=0.0, sigma=5.745/3.83=1.5)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>4 0 32 21 9 1 1 2 <span class="comment">;Beta (note that level precedes arguments)</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>5 0 32 21 10 1 2 <span class="comment">;Weibull</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span>10 0 8192 10 1 <span class="comment">;Sine wave</span> <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 10 1 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 11 10 2 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 22 10 3 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 33 10 4 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 44 10 5 <span class="stamnt">e</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsScore></span> <span class="csdtag"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> <span>These are the diagrams of the waveforms of the GEN21 routines, as used in the example:</span> </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <img src="images/gen21_1.png" alt="f 1 0 32 21 1 - positive numbers only" /> <div class="caption"> <p>f 1 0 32 21 1 - positive numbers only</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <img src="images/gen21_2.png" alt="f 2 0 32 21 6" /> <div class="caption"> <p>f 2 0 32 21 6</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <img src="images/gen21_3.png" alt="f 3 0 32 21 6 5.745" /> <div class="caption"> <p>f 3 0 32 21 6 5.745</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <img src="images/gen21_4.png" alt="f 4 0 32 21 9 1 1 2 - positive numbers only" /> <div class="caption"> <p>f 4 0 32 21 9 1 1 2 - positive numbers only</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <div class="mediaobject"> <img src="images/gen21_5.png" alt="f 5 0 32 21 10 1 2 - positive numbers only" /> <div class="caption"> <p>f 5 0 32 21 10 1 2 - positive numbers only</p> </div> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Credits"> <a id="idp78004304"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: Paris Smaragdis</td> </tr> <tr> <td>MIT, Cambridge</td> </tr> <tr> <td>1995</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: John ffitch</td> </tr> <tr> <td>University of Bath/Codemist Ltd.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bath, UK</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>Precisions about mu and sigma added by François Pinot after a discussion with Joachim Heintz on the Csound List, December 2010.</p> <p>New in Csound version 3.2</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="GEN20.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="ScoregensTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="GEN23.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">GEN20 </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> GEN23</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>