readclock Instrument Control:Time Reading readclock readclock Reads the value of an internal clock. Description Reads the value of an internal clock. Syntax ir readclock inum Initialization inum -- the number of a clock. There are 32 clocks numbered 0 through 31. All other values are mapped to clock number 32. ir -- value at i-time, of the clock specified by inum Performance Between a clockon and a clockoff 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 readclock opcde reads the current value of a clock at initialization time. Examples Here is an example of the readclock opcode. It uses the file readclock.csd. Example of the readclock opcode. See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags. Its output should include lines like this: instr 1: i1 = 0.000 instr 1: i1 = 90.000 instr 1: i1 = 180.000 See Also clockoff, clockon Credits Author: &namejohn; University of Bath/Codemist Ltd. Bath, UK July, 1999 Example written by &namekevin;. New in Csound version 3.56