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# timek

timek -- Read absolute time in k-rate cycles.

## Description

Read absolute time, in k-rate cycles, since the start of the performance.

## Syntax

ir timek

kr timek

## Performance

timek is for time in k-rate cycles. So with:

      sr    = 44100
      kr    = 6300
      ksmps = 7

then after half a second, the timek opcode would report 3150. It will always report an integer.

timek can produce a k-rate variable for output. There are no input parameters.

timek can also operate only at the start of the instance of the instrument. It produces an i-rate variable (starting with i or gi) as its output.

## Examples

Here is an example of the timek opcode. It uses the files timek.orc and timek.sco.

Example 1. Example of the timek opcode.

    /* timek.orc */
    ; Initialize the global variables.
    sr = 44100
    kr = 4410
    ksmps = 10
    nchnls = 1

    ; Instrument #1.
    instr 1
      ; Print out the value from timek every half-second.
      k1 timek
      printks "k1 = %f samples\\n", 0.5, k1
    endin
    /* timek.orc */

    /* timek.sco */
    ; Play Instrument #1 for two seconds.
    i 1 0 2
    e
    /* timek.sco */

Its output should include lines like this:

    k1 = 1.000000 samples
    k1 = 2205.000000 samples
    k1 = 4410.000000 samples
    k1 = 6615.000000 samples
    k1 = 8820.000000 samples

## See Also

timeinstk, timensts, times

## Credits

Author: Robin Whittle
Australia
May 1997

Example written by Kevin Conder.

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