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<refentry id="fractalnoise">
  <indexterm id="IndexFractalNoise"><primary>fractalnoise</primary></indexterm>
  <refentryinfo><title>Signal Generators:Random (Noise) Generators</title></refentryinfo>
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>fractalnoise</refentrytitle>
  </refmeta>
 
  <refnamediv>
    <refname>fractalnoise</refname>
    <refpurpose>
      A fractal noise generator.
    </refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>
    <para>
      A fractal noise generator implemented as a white noise filtered
      by a cascade of 15 first-order filters.
    </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Syntax</title>
    <synopsis>ares <command>fractalnoise</command> kamp, kbeta</synopsis>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Performance</title>
    <para>
      <emphasis>kamp</emphasis> -- amplitude.
    </para>

    <para>
      <emphasis>kbeta</emphasis> -- spectral parameter related to the fractal dimension
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>0 - white</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>1 - pink</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>2 - brown</para></listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
  
  <refsect1>
    <title>Examples</title>
    <para>
      Here is an example of the fractalnoise opcode. It uses the file <ulink url="examples/fractalnoise.csd"><citetitle>fractalnoise.csd</citetitle></ulink>.

      <example>
        <title>Example of the fractalnoise opcode.</title>

        <para>See the sections <link linkend="UsingRealTime"><citetitle>Real-time Audio</citetitle></link> and <link linkend="CommandFlags"><citetitle>Command Line Flags</citetitle></link> for more information on using command line flags.</para>
          <xi:include href="examples-xml/fractalnoise.csd.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
      </example>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>References</title>
    <para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            R. Saletti. A comparison between two methods to generate
            1/(f^gamma) noise. In Proc. IEEE, volume 74,
            pp. 1595-1596, November 1986.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            G. Corsini and R. Saletti. A 1/(f^gamma) power spectrum
            noise sequence generator. IEEE Trans. on Instrumentation
            and Measurement, 37(4):615-619, December 1988.
          </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            The Sounding Object, edited by Davide Rocchesso and
            Federico Fontana, Edizioni di Mondo Estremo. Chapter 8 by
            Federico Avanzini, pp. 154-157.
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </para>
  </refsect1>
 
  <refsect1>
    <title>Credits</title>
    <para>
      <simplelist>
        <member>Author: &nametito;</member>
        <member>January 2012</member>
      </simplelist>
    </para>
    <para>New in Csound version 5.16</para>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>