Wow! Thanks for the great tip of the @ operator! Is there a manual entry for
this??

Another solution that I have found to be particularlly effective in this
case is using one of Steven Yi's UDO's

http://www.csounds.com/udo/displayOpcode.php?opcode_id=19

to generate the table with ftgen in the orchestra. If you set it up in a
separate instrument it also allows you to write it's length to a global
variable so that for example even though i-time happens once in an "always
on" instrument, you can say, change table sizes at some arbitrary second
instrument's i-rate.


-David

On 1/24/06, Anthony Kozar <anthonykozar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I can understand this point.  It is easy to remember a few simple values
> like 256 or 1024, but most people seem to be using larger tables these
> days
> and may not want to expend the effort to memorize or recalculate sizes
> like
> 65536 or 262144 on a regular basis.
>
> My suggestion to those people is to use a feature that already exists in
> Csound:  the @ and @@ score expression operators.
>
> Try f1 0 [@ 1000] 10 1
> or  f2 0 [@@ 50000] 9 1 1.0 0.0 2.5 0.5 0.32
>
> @ rounds up to the nearest power of 2 (1024 above) and @@ rounds up to the
> nearest power-of-2-plus-1 (65537 above).
>
> Anthony Kozar
> anthonykozar AT sbcglobal DOT net
>
>
> Matt Ingalls wrote on 1/24/06 1:00 PM:
>
> > But the main thing i am annoyed with as a USER
> > is that i do not want to THINK about power-of-2.  And after
> > teaching this csound class
> > this past semester i can tell you i am not the only one!
>
>