<?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>clockoff</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="clip.html" title="clip" /> <link rel="next" href="clockon.html" title="clockon" /> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center">clockoff</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clip.html">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center">Orchestra Opcodes and Operators</th> <td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="clockon.html">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr /> </div> <div class="refentry"> <a id="clockoff"></a> <div class="titlepage"></div> <a id="IndexClockoff" class="indexterm"></a> <div class="refnamediv"> <h2> <span class="refentrytitle">clockoff</span> </h2> <p>clockoff — Stops one of a number of internal clocks. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946335032"></a> <h2>Description</h2> <p> Stops one of a number of internal clocks. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946291544"></a> <h2>Syntax</h2> <pre class="synopsis"><span class="command"><strong>clockoff</strong></span> inum</pre> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946289496"></a> <h2>Initialization</h2> <p> <span class="emphasis"><em>inum</em></span> -- the number of a clock. There are 32 clocks numbered 0 through 31. All other values are mapped to clock number 32. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946287752"></a> <h2>Performance</h2> <p> Between a <a class="link" href="clockon.html" title="clockon"><em class="citetitle">clockon</em></a> and a <span class="emphasis"><em>clockoff</em></span> opcode, the CPU time used is accumulated in the clock. The precision is machine dependent but is the millisecond range on UNIX and Windows systems. The <a class="link" href="readclock.html" title="readclock"><em class="citetitle">readclock</em></a> opcode reads the current value of a clock at initialization time. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946283976"></a> <h2>Examples</h2> <p> Here is an example of the clockoff opcode. It uses the file <a class="ulink" href="examples/clockoff.csd" target="_top"><em class="citetitle">clockoff.csd</em></a>. </p> <div class="example"> <a id="idm281472946282120"></a> <p class="title"> <strong>Example 133. Example of the clockoff opcode.</strong> </p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472779638472"></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">; Audio out Audio in</span> -odac -iadc <span class="c1">;;;RT audio I/O</span> <span class="c1">; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:</span> <span class="c1">; -o clockoff.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform</span> <span class="nt"></CsOptions></span> <span class="nt"><CsInstruments></span> <span class="c1">; Initialize the global variables.</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">44100</span> <span class="vg">ksmps</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="vg">nchnls</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Instrument #1.</span> <span class="kd">instr</span> <span class="nf">1</span> <span class="c1">; Start clock #1.</span> <span class="nb">clockon</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Do something that keeps Csound busy.</span> a<span class="n">1</span> <span class="nb">oscili</span> <span class="mi">10000</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">440</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="nb">out</span> a<span class="n">1</span> <span class="c1">; Stop clock #1.</span> <span class="nb">clockoff</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Print the time accumulated in clock #1.</span> i<span class="n">1</span> <span class="nb">readclock</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="nb">print</span> i<span class="n">1</span> <span class="kd">endin</span> <span class="nt"></CsInstruments></span> <span class="nt"><CsScore></span> <span class="c1">; Initialize the function tables.</span> <span class="c1">; Table 1: an ordinary sine wave.</span> <span class="nb">f</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">32768</span> <span class="mi">10</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Play Instrument #1 for one second starting at 0:00.</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">0</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Play Instrument #1 for one second starting at 0:01.</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="c1">; Play Instrument #1 for one second starting at 0:02.</span> <span class="nb">i</span> <span class="mi">1</span> <span class="mi">2</span> <span class="mi">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="idm281472946280296"></a> <h2>See Also</h2> <p> <a class="link" href="clockon.html" title="clockon"><em class="citetitle">clockon</em></a>, <a class="link" href="readclock.html" title="readclock"><em class="citetitle">readclock</em></a> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1"> <a id="idm281472946277320"></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/Codemist Ltd.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Bath, UK</td> </tr> <tr> <td>July, 1999</td> </tr> </table> <p> </p> <p>New in Csound version 3.56</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr /> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="clip.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="clockon.html">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">clip </td> <td width="20%" align="center"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html">Home</a> </td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> clockon</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>