x-class noise generators betarand betarand betarand Beta distribution random number generator (positive values only). Beta distribution random number generator (positive values only). This is an x-class noise generator. ares betarand krange, kalpha, kbeta ires betarand krange, kalpha, kbeta kres betarand krange, kalpha, kbeta krange -- range of the random numbers (0 - krange). kalpha -- alpha value. If kalpha is smaller than one, smaller values favor values near 0. kbeta -- beta value. If kbeta is smaller than one, smaller values favor values near krange. If both kalpha and kbeta equal one we have uniform distribution. If both kalpha and kbeta are greater than one we have a sort of Gaussian distribution. Outputs only positive numbers. For more detailed explanation of these distributions, see: C. Dodge - T.A. Jerse 1985. Computer music. Schirmer books. pp.265 - 286 D. Lorrain. A panoply of stochastic cannons. In C. Roads, ed. 1989. Music machine . Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT press, pp. 351 - 379. Here is an example of the betarand opcode. It uses the file betarand.csd. See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags. Its output should include a line like: instr 1: i1 = 24583.412 seed, bexprnd, cauchy, exprand, gauss, linrand, pcauchy, poisson, trirand, unirand, weibull Author: &nameparis; MIT, Cambridge 1995 Existed in 3.30 Example written by &namekevin;.