<?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>Score File Preprocessing</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="CommandTop.html" title="The Csound Command" /> <link rel="prev" href="CommandUnifileParFile.html" title="Command Line Parameter File (.csoundrc)" /> <link rel="next" href="CommandPreindie.html" title="Independent Pre-Processing with Scsort" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">Score File Preprocessing</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CommandUnifileParFile.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">The Csound Command</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="CommandPreindie.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="section" title="Score File Preprocessing"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a id="CommandPreproc"></a>Score File Preprocessing</h2> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section" title="The Extract Feature"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h3 class="title"><a id="commandpreextract"></a>The Extract Feature</h3> </div> </div> </div> <p> <a id="IndexExtract" class="indexterm"></a> This feature will extract a segment of a sorted numeric score file according to instructions taken from a control file. The control file contains an instrument list and two time points, from and to, in the form: </p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="programlisting">instruments 1 2 from 1:27.5 to 2:2</pre> </div> <p> </p> <p> The component labels may be abbreviated as i, f and t. The time points denote the beginning and end of the extract in terms of: </p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="programlisting">[section no.] : [beat no.].</pre> </div> <p> </p> <p> Each of the three parts of the argument is optional. The default values for missing i, f or t are: </p> <div class="informalexample"> <pre class="programlisting">all instruments, beginning of score, end of score.</pre> </div> <p> </p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="CommandUnifileParFile.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="CommandTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="CommandPreindie.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Command Line Parameter File (.csoundrc) </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Independent Pre-Processing with Scsort</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>