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## socksend

socksend — Sends data to other processes using the low-level UDP or TCP protocols

## Description

Transmits data directly using the UDP (socksend and socksends) or TCP (stsend) protocol onto a network. The data is not subject to any encoding or special routing. The socksends opcode send a stereo signal interleaved.

## Syntax

    socksend asig, Sipaddr, iport, ilength

    socksend ksig, Sipaddr, iport, ilength

    socksends asigl, asigr, Sipaddr, iport,
        ilength

    stsend asig, Sipaddr, iport

## Initialization

Sipaddr -- a string that is the IP address of the receiver in standard 4-octet dotted form.

iport -- the number of the port that is used for the communication.

ilength -- the length of the individual packets in UDP transmission. This number must be sufficiently small to fit a single MTU, which is set to the save value of 1456. In UDP transmissions the receiver needs to know this value

## Performance

asig, ksig, asigl, asigr -- data to be transmitted.

## Example

The example shows a simple sine wave being sent just once to a computer called "172.16.0.255", on port 7777 using UDP. Note that .255 is often used for broadcasting.

            sr = 44100
            ksmps = 100
            nchnls = 1

            instr   1
            a1 oscil        20000,441,1
               socksend     a1, "172.16.0.255",7777, 200
            endin

## Credits

Author: John ffitch
2006

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