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## readk2

readk2 — Periodically reads two orchestra control-signal values from an external file.

## Description

Periodically reads two orchestra control-signal values from an external file.

## Syntax

    kr1, kr2 readk2 ifilname, iformat, iprd

## Initialization

ifilname -- an integer N denoting a file named "readk.N" or a character string (in double quotes, spaces permitted) denoting the external file name. For a string, it may either be a full path name with directory specified or a simple filename. In the later case, the file is sought first in the current directory, then in SSDIR, and finally in SFDIR.

iformat -- specifies the input data format:

- 1 = 8-bit signed integers (char)

- 4 = 16-bit short integers

- 5 = 32-bit long integers

- 6 = 32-bit floats

- 7 = ASCII long integers (plain text)

- 8 = ASCII floats (plain text)

Note that A-law and U-law formats are not available, and that all formats except the last two are binary. The input file should be a "raw", headerless data file.

iprd -- the rate (period) in seconds, rounded to the nearest orchestra control period, at which the signals are read from the input file. A value of 0 implies one control period (the enforced minimum), which will read new values at the orchestra control rate. Longer periods will cause the same values to repeat for more than one control period.

## Performance

kr1, kr2 -- output of the signals read from ifilname.

This opcode allows two generated control signal values to be read from a named external file. The file should contain no header information but it should contain a regularly sampled time series of control values. For binary formats, the individual samples of each signal are interleaved. For ASCII text formats, the values are assumed to be separated by at least one whitespace character. The two "channels" in a sample frame may be on the same line or separated by newline characters, it does not matter. There may be any number of readk2 opcodes in an instrument or orchestra and they may read from the same or different files.

## Examples

Here is an example of the readk2 opcode. It uses the file readk2.csd.

Example 872. Example of the readk2 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
    -odac      ;;;realtime audio out
    ;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ; -o readk2.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    ksmps = 32
    nchnls = 2
    0dbfs  = 1

    giSine ftgen 0, 0, 2^10, 10, 1

    instr 1 ;writes two control signals to a file
    kfreq     randh     100, 1, 2, 1, 500 ;generates one random number between 400 and 600 per second
    kdb       randh     12, 1, 2, 1, -12 ;amplitudes in dB between -24 and 0
              dumpk2    kfreq, kdb, "dumpk2.txt", 8, 1 ;writes the control signals
              prints    "WRITING:\n"
              printks   "kfreq = %f, kdb = %f\n", 1, kfreq, kdb  ;prints them
    endin

    instr 2 ;reads the file written by instr 1
    kf,kdb    readk2    "dumpk2.txt", 8, 1
              prints    "READING:\n"
              printks   "kfreq = %f, kdb = %f\n", 1, kf, kdb  ;prints again
    kdb       lineto    kdb, .1 ;smoothing amp transition
    aout      poscil    ampdb(kdb), kf, giSine
              outs      aout, aout
    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>
    i 1 0 5
    i 2 5 5
    e
    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

The output should include lines like these:

    kfreq = 429.202551, kdb = -20.495694
    kfreq = 429.202551, kdb = -20.495694
    kfreq = 407.275258, kdb = -23.123776
    kfreq = 475.264472, kdb = -9.300846
    kfreq = 569.979181, kdb = -7.315527
    kfreq = 440.103457, kdb = -0.058331

    kfreq = 429.202600, kdb = -20.495700
    kfreq = 429.202600, kdb = -20.495700
    kfreq = 407.275300, kdb = -23.123800
    kfreq = 475.264500, kdb = -9.300800
    kfreq = 569.979200, kdb = -7.315500
    kfreq = 440.103500, kdb = -0.058300

## See Also

dumpk, dumpk2, dumpk3, dumpk4, readk, readk3, readk4

## Credits

By: John ffitch and Barry L. Vercoe

1999 or earlier

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