On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Mike McGonagle wrote:
One thing that might be nice would be to see a couple of screen shots of how these things are connecting up in Max.
I'll try to get my lazy butt in gear and put some on the web page. Good idea!
I was wondering if it would be possible to use ChucK as a sort of scripting language that controls various PD objects. Otherwise it just seems kind of odd to have a self-contained ChucK running inside PD, and if that is the case, why not just run ChucK by itself.
yes, you can do this -- I wrote two new ugens (MaxBang and MaxMessage) that are included in the code. One will send out a scheduled bang, and the other can send out scheduled lists of values that you computer in ChucK. I've used this capability a lot with [rtcmix~], and the ability to use arrays/functions/etc. in [chuck~] suggests that it would be terrific for this kind of application. max/msp is horrible at maintaining any semblance of state.
From what Ge described above, being able to send code in real-time, that sounds like the idea is to use PD as a gui/ide interface only. It would be nice if you could leverage the strengths of both ChucK (writing procedural/logic code) and PD (building a gui and interfacing with audio/midi/video[with GEM]).
yeah -- this is the big win in combining these different languages. Use their strengths! brad http://music.columbia.edu/~brad