<?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>median</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="mdelay.html" title="mdelay" /> <link rel="next" href="mediank.html" title="mediank" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">median</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mdelay.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="mediank.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a id="median"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexMedian" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">median</span> </h2> <p>median — A median filter, a variant FIR lowpass filter. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915697432"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Implementation of a median filter. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915636104"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis">ares <span class="command"><strong>median</strong></span> asig, ksize, imaxsize [, iskip]</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915633912"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>imaxsize</em></span> -- the maximun size of the window used to select the data. </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>iskip</em></span> -- initial disposition of internal data space. A zero value will clear the space; a non-zero value will allow previous information to remain. The default value is 0. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915631304"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>asig</em></span> -- input signal to be filtered </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>ksize</em></span> -- size of the window over which the input is to be filtered. It must not exceed the maximum window size; if it does it is truncated. </p> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>median</em></span> is a simple filter that retuns the median value of the last <span class="emphasis"><em>ksize</em></span> values. It has a lowpass action. The efficiency decreases as the window size increases. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915627256"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the median opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/median.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">median.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idm281472915625400"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 530. Example of the median 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="idm281472739737944"></a> <pre class="programlisting"> <span class="nt"><CsoundSynthesizer></span> <span class="nt"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="vg">sr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">44100</span> <span class="vg">kr</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">441</span> <span class="vg">ksmps</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">100</span> <span class="vg">nchnls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="kd">instr</span> <span class="nf">1</span> a<span class="n">1</span> <span class="nb">oscil</span> <span class="mi">30000</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span> a<span class="n">2</span> <span class="nb">median</span> a<span class="n">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">8</span> <span class="nb">out</span> a<span class="n">2</span> <span class="kd">endin</span> <span class="nt"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="nt"><CsScore></span> <span class="nb">f</span><span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">4096</span> <span class="mi">10</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mf">0.1</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" /> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472915621112"></a> <h2>Credits</h2> <p> </p> <table border="0" summary="Simple list" class="simplelist"> <tr> <td>Author: John ffitch</td> </tr> <tr> <td>University of Bath</td> </tr> <tr> <td>May 2010</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>New in Csound version 5.13</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="mdelay.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="mediank.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">mdelay </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> mediank</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>