Time in seconds is available with times. This would return 0.5 after half a second.
times can both produce a k-rate variable for output. There are no input parameters.
times can also operate at the start of the instance of the instrument. It produces an i-rate variable (starting with i or gi) as its output.
Here is an example of the times opcode. It uses the files times.orc and times.sco.
Example 382. Example of the times opcode.
/* times.orc */ ; Initialize the global variables. sr = 44100 kr = 4410 ksmps = 10 nchnls = 1 ; Instrument #1. instr 1 ; Print out the value from times every half-second. k1 times printks "k1 = %f seconds\\n", 0.5, k1 endin /* times.orc */
/* times.sco */ ; Play Instrument #1 for two seconds. i 1 0 2 e /* times.sco */
Its output should include lines like this:
k1 = 0.000227 seconds k1 = 0.500000 seconds k1 = 1.000000 seconds k1 = 1.500000 seconds k1 = 2.000000 seconds