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Operating Systems OS X (Apple) An Audio Function Generator... Post 302970200 by Don Cragun on Sunday 3rd of April 2016 07:36:06 PM
Old 04-03-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by wisecracker
Hi all...
This is the very start of all of the waveforms...

SINEWAVE16, SINEWAVE64, TRIANGLE16 and TRIANGLE64 have not yet been worked out WRT to correct values but this is the finished waveform generation variable and file section.
All file lengths are 524288 bytes in size.
During doing this I got the error:-
"""
/usr/bin/awk: /tmp/pulseplus64.raw makes too many open files
source line number <somenumber>
"""
And www.unix.com came to the rescue yet again:-
nawk - file limits
Code:
Code removed to save space.

All criticisms welcome...
Hi wisecracker,
You didn't have to go searching for the too many open files problem; it was already discussed in this thread. (Take a look at post #8 in this thread again.)

Your comments say that ARBITRARY can be any length from 2 to 1024 bytes, but that isn't really true. Any change to the length of that string would also require a change tot he LOOPS variable. And, with the way you are creating the strings you're writing to your files, ARBITRARY (and all of the waveforms have to have lengths that are a power of two.

Any time you are doing the same thing more than two or three times, I strongly suggest that you consider using a function. The following gets rid of your hard coded loop counts for various input waveform lengths, runs a little faster (since space is only needed for one .5Mb string instead of growing each of your waveform strings to .5Mb), and makes it much easier if you ever want to create shorter or longer files (just change the SIZE variable to a different value that is still a power of 2):
Code:
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
function WaveFileGen(wave, file,	l, w) {
	# Generate a raw waveform file (file) of size SIZE by repeatedly
	# doubling the given wave string (wave).
	for(l = length(w = wave); l < SIZE; l *= 2)
		w = w w
	printf("%s", w) > file
	close(file)
}
BEGIN {
	# General variables...
#	LOOPS = 16	# This variable is no longer used.
#	The following two variables only used in for loops where their value is
#	set immediately before they are used.  The initial values assigned here
#	are overridden when these variables are used.
#	LOOP = 1
#	INTEGER = 32
	NOISE = "$VER freq.awk_Version_0.00.01_B.Walker_G0LCU."
	# Note that this is an awk script; not a shell script, VER is not
	# defined as an awk variable in this awk script, and even if it was
	# defined, $VER will not be expanded in an awk string constant.

	# Waveform variables...
	SIZE = 2**19	# Number of bytes to be placed in waveform files.
			# Note that since 524288 is 2**19 and WaveFileGen()
			# repeatedly doubles waveforms, the following waveforms
			# must have a length (not including the terminating null
			# byte) that is a power of 2 single-byte characters
			# long.
	SINEWAVE4 = "O~O "
	SINEWAVE16 = "Op}pN- -Op}pN- -"
	SINEWAVE64 = "Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -Op}pN- -"
	SQUAREWAVE4 = "~~  "
	SQUAREWAVE16 = "~~~~~~~~        "
	SQUAREWAVE64 = "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~                                "
	TRIANGLEWAVE4 = "O~O "
	TRIANGLEWAVE16 = "________--------"
	TRIANGLEWAVE64 = "________________________________--------------------------------"
	SAWTOOTHPLUS4 = " ?^~"
	SAWTOOTHPLUS16 = " &,29?EKRX^dkqw~"
	SAWTOOTHPLUS64 = " !#$&')*,-/0235689:<>?ABDEGHJKMNPQSTVWYZ\\^_abdeghjkmnpqstvwyz|}~"
	SAWTOOTHMINUS4 = "~^? "
	SAWTOOTHMINUS16 = "~wqkd^XRKE?92,& "
	SAWTOOTHMINUS64 = "~}|zywvtsqpnmkjhgedba_^\\ZYWVTSQPNMKJHGEDBA?><:9865320/-,*)'&$#! "
	PULSEPLUS4 = "~   "
	PULSEPLUS16 = "~               "
	PULSEPLUS64 = "~                                                               "
	PULSEMINUS4 = " ~~~"
	PULSEMINUS16 = " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
	PULSEMINUS64 = " ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"
	# ARBITRARY can be any length from 2 to 1024 bytes (as long as the
	# length is a power of 2), sampling rate will be set to 96000 later...
	ARBITRARY = "Op}pN- -"

	# 4 byte waveforms, the sinewave and triangle wave are identical...
	WaveFileGen(SINEWAVE4, "/tmp/sinewave4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SQUAREWAVE4, "/tmp/squarewave4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(TRIANGLEWAVE4, "/tmp/trianglewave4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHPLUS4, "/tmp/sawtoothplus4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHMINUS4, "/tmp/sawtoothminus4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEPLUS4, "/tmp/pulseplus4.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEMINUS4, "/tmp/pulseminus4.raw")

	# 16 byte waveforms...
	WaveFileGen(SINEWAVE16, "/tmp/sinewave16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SQUAREWAVE16, "/tmp/squarewave16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(TRIANGLEWAVE16, "/tmp/trianglewave16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHPLUS16, "/tmp/sawtoothplus16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHMINUS16, "/tmp/sawtoothminus16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEPLUS16, "/tmp/pulseplus16.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEMINUS16, "/tmp/pulseminus16.raw")

	# 64 byte waveforms...
	WaveFileGen(SINEWAVE64, "/tmp/sinewave64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SQUAREWAVE64, "/tmp/squarewave64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(TRIANGLEWAVE64, "/tmp/trianglewave64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHPLUS64, "/tmp/sawtoothplus64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(SAWTOOTHMINUS64, "/tmp/sawtoothminus64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEPLUS64, "/tmp/pulseplus64.raw")
	WaveFileGen(PULSEMINUS64, "/tmp/pulseminus64.raw")

	# Generate the noise waveform...
	srand()
	for(LOOP = 1; LOOP <= SIZE; ++LOOP)
	{
		INTEGER = 32 + rand() * 95
		printf("%c", INTEGER) > "/tmp/noise.raw"
	}
	close("/tmp/noise.raw")

	# Create a temporary ARBITRARY file...
	WaveFileGen(ARBITRARY, "/tmp/arbitrary.raw")
}

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