Hi -

I have been reading about CSound and am interested in using it for my
real-time needs. I wanted to get the communities input, though, since I am
new to it.

I want to generate a periodic tone at a rate of 120bpm for 20 seconds. Then
I want to generate a different tone once at some previously defined
pseudo-random point within that 20 second duration. Both of these tone
generations need to have high precision (ideally jitter less than a
millisecond, but I'm interested in hearing what's possible with CSound).

The goal is to generate those tones and log the time of occurrence of those
tones, if possible.

Hi Yogi.
What you want to do is certainly possible.  The timing can be precise to the sampling rate (as good as it gets). You can use the event opcode for generating real time events. It sounds as if you want to log the generated event times and this is also possible ( e.g. write values to a table and write table to disk).
Best, Oeyvind

All good. Best of luck, and don't hesitate to ask for any help needed
on the problems you encounter along the way.


2014-07-12 3:01 GMT+02:00 Yogi A. Patel :
> Hi Oeyvind -
>
> Yes, you are absolutely correct. That is what I want to do.
>
> It might take me some time to figure out how to do that, but should be a fun
> learning experience.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Yogi
>
> On Jul 11, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Michael Mossey  wrote:
>
> On 7/11/2014 4:32 AM, Yogi A. Patel wrote:
>
> Hi -
>
> I have been reading about CSound and am interested in using it for my
> real-time needs. I wanted to get the communities input, though, since I am
> new to it.
>
> I want to generate a periodic tone at a rate of 120bpm for 20 seconds. Then
> I want to generate a different tone once at some previously defined
> pseudo-random point within that 20 second duration. Both of these tone
> generations need to have high precision (ideally jitter less than a
> millisecond, but I'm interested in hearing what's possible with CSound).
>
> The goal is to generate those tones and log the time of occurrence of those
> tones, if possible.
>
>
> I'll let others comment on the jitter question, but as far as generating
> these tones, is it sufficient to generate a csound score ahead of time that
> describes these tones and their timing? Or is this timing to be determined
> in real time? What determines it? Software? In what language?
>
> What do you mean by "log the time of occurrence"? What program is doing the
> logging?
>
> Mike
>
>



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