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## noise

noise — A white noise generator with an IIR lowpass filter.

## Description

A white noise generator with an IIR lowpass filter.

## Syntax

    ares noise xamp, kbeta

## Performance

xamp -- amplitude of final output

kbeta -- beta of the lowpass filter. Should be in the range of -1 to 1, exclusive of the end-points.

The filter equation is:

where xn is the original white noise and yn is lowpass filtered noise. The higher β is, the lower the filter's cut-off frequency. The cutoff frequency is roughly sr * ((1-kbeta)/2).

## Examples

Here is an example of the noise opcode. It uses the file noise.csd.

Example 541. Example of the noise opcode.

See the sections Real-time Audio and Command Line Flags for more information on using command line flags.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>
    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    -odac  ;;;realtime audio out
    ;-iadc    ;;;uncomment -iadc if realtime audio input is needed too
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ; -o noise.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    ksmps = 32
    nchnls = 2
    0dbfs  = 1

    instr 1

    kbeta line -0.9999, p3, 0.9999	;change beta value between -1 to 1
    asig  noise .3, kbeta
    asig  clip asig, 2, .9	;clip signal
          outs asig, asig

    endin
    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>

    i 1 0 10

    e
    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

Here is an example of the noise opcode controlling the kbeta parameter with a GUI interface. It uses the file noise-2.csd.

Example 542. Example of the noise opcode controlled with a GUI.

    <CsoundSynthesizer>
    <CsOptions>
    ; Select audio/midi flags here according to platform
    ; Audio out   Audio in    No messages
    -odac     ;  -iadc     -d     ;;;RT audio I/O
    ; For Non-realtime ouput leave only the line below:
    ; -o noise.wav -W ;;; for file output any platform
    </CsOptions>
    <CsInstruments>

    sr = 44100
    kr = 4410
    ksmps = 10
    nchnls = 2

    FLpanel "noise", 200, 50, -1 , -1
        gkbeta, gislider1 FLslider "kbeta", -1, 1, 0, 5, -1, 180, 20, 10, 10
    FLpanelEnd
    FLrun

    instr 1
      iamp = 0dbfs / 4  ; Peaks 12 dB below 0dbfs
      print iamp

      a1 noise iamp, gkbeta*0.9999
      printk2 gkbeta*0.9999
      outs a1,a1
    endin

    </CsInstruments>
    <CsScore>

    ; Play Instrument #1 for one minute.
    i 1 0 60
    e

    </CsScore>
    </CsoundSynthesizer>

## Credits

Author: John ffitch
University of Bath, Codemist. Ltd.
Bath, UK
December 2000

New in Csound version 4.10

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