Bela

h1. Tutorial Sketches - Explanations

Find the tutorial sketches in Respository > Projects, or click this link: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/beaglert/repository/show/projects

Below is a list of the sample sketches, and what they do.

h2. Basic sketch structure

A collection of BeagleRT files are called a "project".

h3. The structure of a BeagleRT project

If you open a project folder in the above repository, you'll see that each of these BeagleRT project contains two files: main.cpp and render.cpp (some projects have additional files, but every project has at least these two). The main.cpp file you don't really have to worry about; it contains helper functions and things that run command line arguments. Most work is done in the render.cpp file.

h3. The structure of a render.cpp file

A render.cpp file has three functions: setup(), render() and cleanup().

setup() is a function that runs at the beginning when the project starts.

render() is a function that is regularly called, over and over continuously, at the highest priority by the audio engine.

cleanup() is a function that is called when the program stops, to finish up any processes that might still be running.

Here we will briefly explain each function and the structure of the render.cpp document

h3. Before any functions

At the top of the file, include any libraries you might need.

Additionally, declare any global variables. In these tutorial sketches, all global variables are preceded by a g so we always know which variables are global - gSampleData, for instance. It's not mandatory but is a really good way of keeping track of what's global and what isn't.

Sometimes it's necessary to access a variable from another file, such as main.cpp. In this case, precede this variable with the keyword extern.

h3. Function arguments

setup(), render() and cleanup() each take the same arguments. These are:

BeagleRTContext *context
void *userData

These arguments are pointers to data structures. The main one that's used is context, which is a pointer to a data structure containing lots of information you need.

Take a look at what's in the data structure here: https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/beaglert/embedded/structBeagleRTContext.html In that link there is also a

You can access any of those bits of information contained in the data structure like this: context->[item in struct]

For example, context->audioChannels returns the number of audioChannels. context->audioIn[n] would give you the current input sample (assuming that your input is mono - if it's not you will have to account for multiple channels).

Note that every audioIn, audioOut, analogIn, analogOut and digital are all buffers.

h2. analogDigitalDemo

h2. audio_in_FFT

h2. basic

h2. basic_analog_input

h2. basic_analog_output

h2. basic_network

h2. basic_passthru

h2. cape_test

h2. d-box

h2. filter_FIR

h2. filter_IIR

h2. oscillator_bank\

h2. samples

h2. tank_wars