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## readk

readk — Periodically reads an orchestra control-signal value from an external file.

## Description

Periodically reads an orchestra control-signal value from a named external file in a specific format.

## Syntax

    kres readk 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 is 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 unless interpolation is used.

## Performance

kres -- output of the signal read from ifilname.

This opcode allows a generated control signal value 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 ASCII text formats, the values are assumed to be separated by at least one whitespace character. There may be any number of readk opcodes in an instrument or orchestra and they may read from the same or different files.

## Examples

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

Example 431. Example of the readk 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 readk.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    ; Initialize the global variables.
    sr = 44100
    kr = 4410
    ksmps = 10
    nchnls = 1

    0dbfs = 1
    ; By Andres Cabrera 2008

    instr 1
    ; Read a number from the file every 0.5 seconds
      kfibo readk "fibonacci.txt", 7, 0.5
      kpitchclass = 8 +  ((kfibo % 12)/100)
      printk2 kpitchclass
      kcps = cpspch( kpitchclass )
      printk2 kcps
      a1 oscil 0.5, kcps, 1
      out a1
    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>
    f 1 0 1024 10 1
    i 1 0 10
    e

    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

## See Also

dumpk, dumpk2, dumpk3, dumpk4, readk2, readk3, readk4

## Credits

By: John ffitch and Barry Vercoe

1999 or earlier

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