Description

Read absolute time, in seconds, since the start of an instance of an instrument.

Syntax

kres timeinsts

Performance

Time in seconds is available with timeinsts. This would return 0.5 after half a second.

timeinsts produces a k-rate variable for output. There are no input parameters.

timeinsts is similar to times except it returns the time since the start of this instance of the instrument.

Examples

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

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

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

        

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

        

Its output should include lines like this:

k1 = 0.000227 seconds
k1 = 0.500000 seconds
k1 = 1.000000 seconds
k1 = 1.500000 seconds
k1 = 2.000000 seconds
      

See Also

timeinstk, timek, times

Credits

Example written by Kevin Conder.