<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <title>filenchnls</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="csound.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="syntax-highlighting.css" /> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets Vsnapshot" /> <link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The Canonical Csound Reference Manual" /> <link rel="up" href="OpcodesTop.html" title="Orchestra Opcodes and Operators" /> <link rel="prev" href="filelen.html" title="filelen" /> <link rel="next" href="filepeak.html" title="filepeak" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">filenchnls</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filelen.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="filepeak.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a id="filenchnls"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexFilechnls" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">filenchnls</span> </h2> <p>filenchnls — Returns the number of channels in a sound file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937887928"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Returns the number of channels in a sound file. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937886584"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis">ir <span class="command"><strong>filenchnls</strong></span> ifilcod [, iallowraw]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937816392"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>ifilcod</em></span> -- sound file to be queried </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>iallowraw</em></span> -- (Optional) Allow raw sound files (default=1) </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937813784"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>filenchnls</em></span> returns the number of channels in the sound file <span class="emphasis"><em>ifilcod</em></span>. <span class="emphasis"><em>filechnls</em></span> can return the number of channels of convolve and PVOC files if the <span class="emphasis"><em>iallowraw</em></span> flag is not zero (it is non-zero by default). </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937810728"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the filenchnls opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/filenchnls.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">filenchnls.csd</em>, </a><a class="ulink" href="examples/fox.wav" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">fox.wav</em></a>, and <a class="ulink" href="examples/kickroll.wav" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">kickroll.wav</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idm281472937807208"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 270. Example of the filenchnls opcode.</strong> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <p>See the sections <a class="link" href="UsingRealTime.html" title="Real-Time Audio"><em class="citetitle">Real-time Audio</em></a> and <a class="link" href="CommandFlags.html" title="Csound command line"><em class="citetitle">Command Line Flags</em></a> for more information on using command line flags.</p> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472770197416"></a> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="nt"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="nt"><CsOptions></span> <span class="c1">; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform</span> <span class="c1">;-odac ;;;realtime audio out</span> -iadc <span class="c1">;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too</span> <span class="c1">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="c1">;-o filechnls.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="nt"></CsOptions></span> <span class="nt"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="vg">sr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">44100</span> <span class="vg">ksmps</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">32</span> <span class="vg">nchnls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="vg">0dbfs</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="kd">instr</span> <span class="nf">1</span> <span class="c1">; choose between mono or stereo file</span> i<span class="n">len</span> <span class="nb">filelen</span> <span class="nb">p4</span> <span class="c1">;calculate length of soundfile</span> <span class="c1">;print ilen</span> i<span class="n">chn</span> <span class="nb">filenchnls</span> <span class="nb">p4</span> <span class="c1">;check number of channels</span> <span class="nb">print</span> i<span class="n">chn</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="p">(</span>i<span class="n">chn</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">then</span> <span class="c1">;mono signal</span> a<span class="n">sig</span> <span class="nb">diskin2</span> <span class="nb">p4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="nb">outs</span> a<span class="n">sig</span><span class="p">,</span> a<span class="n">sig</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="c1">;stereo signal</span> a<span class="n">L</span><span class="p">,</span> a<span class="n">R</span> <span class="nb">diskin2</span> <span class="nb">p4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="nb">outs</span> a<span class="n">L</span><span class="p">,</span> a<span class="n">R</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="kd">endin</span> <span class="nt"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="nt"><CsScore></span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">3</span> <span class="s">"fox.wav"</span> <span class="c1">;mono signal</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">5</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="s">"kickroll.wav"</span> <span class="c1">;stereo signal</span> <span class="nb">e</span> <span class="nt"></CsScore></span> <span class="nt"></CsoundSynthesizer></span> </pre> </div> </div> </div> <p><br class="example-break" /> The audio file <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">fox.wav</span>”</span> is monoaural (1 channel), while <span class="quote">“<span class="quote">kickroll.wav</span>”</span> is stereo (2 channels) So <span class="emphasis"><em>filenchnls</em></span>'s output should include lines like this: </p> <pre class="screen"> instr 1: ichn = 1.000 instr 1: ichn = 2.000 </pre> <p> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937800760"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a class="link" href="filebit.html" title="filebit"><em class="citetitle">filebit</em></a>, <a class="link" href="filelen.html" title="filelen"><em class="citetitle">filelen</em></a>, <a class="link" href="filepeak.html" title="filepeak"><em class="citetitle">filepeak</em></a>, <a class="link" href="filesr.html" title="filesr"><em class="citetitle">filesr</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472937795736"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: Matt Ingalls</td> </tr> <tr> <td>July 1999</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>New in Csound version 3.57</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="filelen.html">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="u" href="OpcodesTop.html">Up</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="filepeak.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">filelen </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> filepeak</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>