Time in seconds is available with timeinsts. This would return 0.5 after half a second.
timeinsts produces a k-rate variable for output. There are no input parameters.
timeinsts is similar to times except it returns the time since the start of this instance of the instrument.
Here is an example of the timeinsts opcode. It uses the files timeinsts.orc and timeinsts.sco.
Example 380. Example of the timeinsts opcode.
/* timeinsts.orc */ ; Initialize the global variables. sr = 44100 kr = 4410 ksmps = 10 nchnls = 1 ; Instrument #1. instr 1 ; Print out the value from timeinsts every half-second. k1 timeinsts printks "k1 = %f seconds\\n", 0.5, k1 endin /* timeinsts.orc */
/* timeinsts.sco */ ; Play Instrument #1 for two seconds. i 1 0 2 e /* timeinsts.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