<?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>trirand</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="OpcodesTop.html" title="Orchestra Opcodes and Operators" /> <link rel="prev" href="trigseq.html" title="trigseq" /> <link rel="next" href="trlowest.html" title="trlowest" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">trirand</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="trigseq.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trlowest.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry" title="trirand"> <a id="trirand"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexTrirandXClass" class="indexterm"></a> <a id="IndexTrirand" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">trirand</span> </h2> <p>trirand — Triangular distribution random number generator </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Description"> <a id="idp49580984"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Triangular distribution random number generator. This is an x-class noise generator. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Syntax"> <a id="idp49581760"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis">ares <span class="command"><strong>trirand</strong></span> krange</pre> <pre class="synopsis">ires <span class="command"><strong>trirand</strong></span> krange</pre> <pre class="synopsis">kres <span class="command"><strong>trirand</strong></span> krange</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Performance"> <a id="idp49584304"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>krange</em></span> -- the range of the random numbers (-<span class="emphasis"><em>krange</em></span> to +<span class="emphasis"><em>krange</em></span>). </p> <p> For more detailed explanation of these distributions, see: </p> <div class="orderedlist"> <ol class="orderedlist" type="1"> <li class="listitem"> <p>C. Dodge - T.A. Jerse 1985. Computer music. Schirmer books. pp.265 - 286</p> </li> <li class="listitem"> <p>D. Lorrain. A panoply of stochastic cannons. In C. Roads, ed. 1989. Music machine . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT press, pp. 351 - 379.</p> </li> </ol> </div> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Examples"> <a id="idp49587456"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the trirand opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/trirand.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">trirand.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idp49588440"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 900. Example of the trirand opcode.</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 RT audio input is needed too</span> <span class="comment">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="comment">; -o trirand.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 <span class="comment">; every run time same values</span> ktri <span class="opc">trirand</span> 100 <span class="opc">printk</span> .2, ktri <span class="comment">; look </span> aout <span class="opc">oscili</span> 0.8, 440<span class="op">+</span>ktri, 1 <span class="comment">; & listen</span> <span class="opc">outs</span> aout, aout <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="oblock">instr</span> 2 <span class="comment">; every run time different values</span> <span class="ohdr">seed</span> 0 ktri <span class="opc">trirand</span> 100 <span class="opc">printk</span> .2, ktri <span class="comment">; look </span> aout <span class="opc">oscili</span> 0.8, 440<span class="op">+</span>ktri, 1 <span class="comment">; & listen</span> <span class="opc">outs</span> aout, aout <span class="oblock">endin</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="csdtag"><CsScore></span> <span class="comment">; sine wave</span> <span class="stamnt">f</span> 1 0 16384 10 1 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 1 0 2 <span class="stamnt">i</span> 2 3 2 <span class="stamnt">e</span> <span class="csdtag"></CsScore></span> <span class="csdtag"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> Its output should include a line like this: </p> <pre class="screen"> i 1 time 0.00067: -4.97993 i 1 time 0.20067: 1.20909 i 1 time 0.40067: 17.45873 i 1 time 0.60067: 52.55409 i 1 time 0.80067: -1.92888 i 1 time 1.00000: -11.01149 i 1 time 1.20067: 9.79521 i 1 time 1.40067: 26.98504 i 1 time 1.60067: 24.67405 i 1 time 1.80000: -67.59846 i 1 time 2.00000: 64.24861 WARNING: Seeding from current time 521999639 i 2 time 3.00067: 3.28969 i 2 time 3.20067: 54.98986 i 2 time 3.40067: -33.84788 i 2 time 3.60000: -41.93523 i 2 time 3.80067: -6.61742 i 2 time 4.00000: 39.67097 i 2 time 4.20000: 2.95123 i 2 time 4.40067: 45.59255 i 2 time 4.60067: 16.57259 i 2 time 4.80067: -18.80273 i 2 time 5.00000: -2.01697 </pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="See Also"> <a id="idp49592880"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <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="unirand.html" title="unirand"><em class="citetitle">unirand</em></a>, <a class="link" href="weibull.html" title="weibull"><em class="citetitle">weibull</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1" title="Credits"> <a id="idp49598344"></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> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="trigseq.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="OpcodesTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="trlowest.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">trigseq </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> trlowest</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>