Formulas 1.6. Formulas for creation

With some commands in the New menu, you can supply a formula that Praat will apply to all elements of the new object.

## Creating a Sound from a formula

Choose Create Sound from formula... and type the following into the Formula field:

`1/2 * sin (2 * pi * 377 * x)
`

When you click OK, a new Sound object will appear in the list. After you click View & Edit and zoom in a couple of times, you will see that the sound is a sine wave with a frequency of 377 hertz (cycles per second). This worked because the `x` in the formula represents the time, i.e. the formula was applied to every sample separately, with a different value of `x` for each sample.

## Creating a Matrix from a formula

Choose Create simple Matrix... and type the following into the Formula field:

`8
`

When you click OK, a new Matrix object will appear in the list. When you click Info, you will see that it is a matrix with 10 rows and 10 columns, and that all the 100 cells contain the value 8 (you can see this because both the minimum and the maximum are reported as being 8).

A more interesting example is the formula

`row * col
`

For the resulting Matrix, choose Paint cells... and click OK. The Picture window will show a 10×10 matrix whose elements are the product of the row and column numbers, i.e., they have values between 1 and 100. Beside `row` and `col`, you can use `x` for the distance along the horizontal axis and `y` for the distance along the vertical axis; see the following page for examples.

### Links to this page

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- Formulas 1. My first formulas