Thanks, for the reply, i will investigate further.
I'm asking this becase I'm using a series of subinstr generated within an instrument (at i time by reading a ftable)  that have a variable patching scheme (so the output of a subinstr could be the input of several subinstrs). With zak opcodes is quite easy because you can pass a zak index at k-time (just the number to the correct location written and read in a ftable) and managing numbered indexes (zak addresses) is easier than strings.
I've read that zak opcodes are somehow deprecated so I'm studying the "modern" way.
Ciao

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Da: Rory Walsh <rorywalsh@EAR.IE>
Data: 31/03/2016 17.13
A: <CSOUND@LISTSERV.HEANET.IE>
Ogg: Re: [Csnd] Audio arrays instead of zaw, zawm, zar

I guess 1 should work if you ksmps=1, but I ain't sure. It seems a little odd to me to want to do this in the first place. Why not just use an a-rate variable? 2, so long as you don't overwrite the index then I believe the value will persist through k-cycles. Not sure about 3, but instead of using array, why not simply use audio channels? I patch signal between instruments all the time using a-rate chnsets and chngets. Would they not be simple then using global arrays? 

On 31 March 2016 at 12:24, vallste@libero.it <00000008a49663bc-dmarc-request@listserv.heanet.ie> wrote:

Hello list,

I'm starting to look into arrays (audio) to see how I can use them instead of zak opcodes for patching different instruments, I've the following doubts:

1) can I use a k variable as index to write/read in the array like:

kindex = 10

aout = a_array[kindex]

kindex = kindex + 1

a_array[kindex] = aout

2) are audio arrays zeroed at every k pass or values are persistent through k cycles? With zak opcodes zakcl must be used at each k cycle if we don't want to have the value present at the next k cycle, I must do something like a_array[kindex] = 0 at every kpass?

3) I suppose that writing at an array location completely replace the existing value with the new one so if I'd like to write the equivalent code of zawm I should do something like:

a_array[0]  = aval + a_array[0]

can someone confirm?

Thank you in advance for your help

Stefano

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