January 2006 - chuck-users - lists.cs.princeton.edu

redirecting console output
by eduard 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

Hello all, Is there a way to redirect the std output to a text file? I'd like to use chuck to annotate songs, i.e. when I hear a kick a press a midi keyboard and I tell chuck to output the elapsed time to the console. I'd like to write this output to a text file, but I haven't succeed. Could some one give me a hint? and if that hint is unix or c/c++ it'd be better. thanks in advance, Eduard

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sndbuf questions, etc.
by eric.forte＠verizon.net 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Hi all. Is there a way to make a table lookup oscillator with ChucK? I'm trying to load in soundfiles to be used as waveforms so that I can index them directly. I've worked through allocating an array and loading it with the samples of a file, but there doesn't seem to be a way that you can actually put them out to the dac again. Then I tried to do some other tests where I just read the file into an array outside of a function (since that seemed a bit more chuckian), then sporked a bunch of shreds, but it seems that when you change the position of the buffer from inside a function, it seems to affect the position in the other shreds. The last test I did, I had the file read in inside of the function and that seemed to work well, but quickly seemed to slow everything down. Any input is appreciated. Regards, Eric

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Re: [chuck-users] winxp ChucK setup
by Julian Sorrel 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

My system path reads as: %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ This includes %\System32, so Chuck should be in the system path, I believe. My Chuck folder with bin, examples, and doc are all located in D:\Chuck. I use the start -> run -> cmd shell. When I enter "chuck --help" it loads all the chuck info, so I believe it's running fine. When I prompt to D:\Chuck\examples and enter "chuck otf_07.ck" or "chuck otf_07" though, it gives me "[otf_07(or.ck)]: no such file or directory." This happens when I attempt to load any file in this way. All the example files register in "Dir D:\Chuck\examples", so I'm stumped. Thanks for your help, Julian Ge Wang <gewang(a)CS.Princeton.EDU> wrote: Hi Julian! Welcome to chuck-users! > I'm just trying out ChucK for the first time, and I'm not able to get > chuck to load a file. If I prompt to D:\Chuck\examples\, theoretically > I should be able to enter "chuck otf_01.ck" and have it launch, right? That's correct. What are steps you took to do this? - which shell are you using? via start->run... then 'cmd'? - what error message are you seeing? > I'm running Windows XP, and using the win32.exe ChucK (which I put in > System32). That's correct also. This should put chuck into your system path. After which you should be able to invoke chuck from any directory, using the command line interface. It may be that chuck.exe is still not in your PATH, it is inconceivable that c:\windows\system32\ is not in PATH, but still possible. Can you check which directories are in your path? You can do this right click on my computer (I think) and select properties, and under one of the tabs should be the default path - all the directories listed will be searched when invoking a program globally. Let's get this resolved! Let me know how things go. Ge! > I'm just trying out ChucK for the first time, and I'm not able to get > chuck to load a file. If I prompt to D:\Chuck\examples\, theoretically > I should be able to enter "chuck otf_01.ck" and have it launch, right? That's correct. What are steps you took to do this? %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI Control Panel;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ Note: forwarded message attached. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? With a free 1 GB, there's more in store with Yahoo! Mail.

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A Bug? or is it a Feature?
by Mike McGonagle 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hello all, I was playing with some ChucK code that I wrote, and in copying some of the code to another file, I inadvertantly copied a global variable definition so that it was after a function that referenced that global variable. When I ran the code, I didn't get a message from ChucK that the variable was not defined when the code was compiled, and when the program ran, it would hang at the location where the global was referenced. (I don't have access at the moment to a running "ChucK", so I can only give an simple example.) fun void mySporkedFunction(float p1, float p2) { <<< p1, p2 >>>; globalVariable * 2 => float myLocalVariable; // do some sort of time function here } // define the global here 10.0 => float globalVariable; spork ~ mySporkedFunction(0.0, 1.0); When I ran my actual code, Chuck would hang up at the point where the globalVariable was referenced, in this example, that would be the second line off mySporkedFunction. The previous "print" statement would not output anything, until I hit Control-C to stop everything. Needless to say, I moved the global defintion to before the function, but I would think that there should be some sort of error message generated, or this should work as expected. Thanks, Mike

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Question about Networking
by Mike McGonagle 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

I was working on some code in ChucK, and was thinking that it would be nice to be able to use an interface that I already have created using Pure Data. But, in order to do this, there would have to be something available that would be similar to either a MIDI event, or the like. Am I correct in understand that the "netin" and "netout" Unit Generators are specifically for transfering audio over the network? Are there any plans to create such an Event class? I would think something like this couldn't be written in ChucK, as there would need to be some sort of networking primitive to handle the connections and data transfer. How does Audicle connect up to ChucK? Is that purely through a commandline, with Audicle sending other commandline messages to a running "ChucK"? Thanks, Mike -- Help the Environment, Plant a Bush back in Texas!

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about "dac/adc" to control input/out??
by Lewis Liu 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Dear Sir, In my PC, there are two audio interface. One is the default in motehr board (SoundMax). Another is USB dungo. I can use --dacx and --adcx to force the audio input and ouput in SoundMax. But I can not use --dacx or --adcx to force the input in USB dungo. I do not know what is wrong. The codes are as follows: adc => gain g => blackhole; float x; while( true ) { g.last() => x; if( std.fabs(x) >= .05 ){ <<< x, "hello" >>>; } 1::samp => now; } Best Regards Lewis

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Re: Is there any "Community" repositories yet?
by Jim Hinds 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

I have re-posted the stereoChord EGG routine back up on the wiki. I now know that there is a system malfunction that prevents the text from showing: I thought it was my breath. Jim Hinds Chuck Rules, But the Wiki fools! On Jan 21, 2006, at 7:02 AM, Mike McGonagle penned: > > From: Mike McGonagle <mjmogo(a)gmail.com> > Date: January 20, 2006 9:32:06 AM HST > To: ChucK Users Mailing List <chuck-users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > Subject: Re: [chuck-users] Is there any "Community" repositories yet? > Reply-To: ChucK Users Mailing List <chuck- > users(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > > > On 1/19/06, Adam Tindale <adamtindale(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> You should post them on the WIKI in the ChucK Progams section. > > And when I get to the upload page, it says that it is disabled. > >> http://wiki.cs.princeton.edu/index.php/ChucK_Programs >> >> There are other examples of ChucK programs there. We are probably >> going to clean this up a bit. I have been doing a bit of work to make >> the WIKI a bit more useful and clean. I am certainly interested in >> your patches and hopefully they will give the wiki a bit more traffic >> so we can all post our stuff there. > > I don't think it is a "probably", it has to be fixed, as the things > that are posted there are nothing but gibberish. It looks like this is > one of the few "forums" (for lack of a better name) that is being > hosted by this WIKI, so it might be that there is little resources for > the administration of the software. Are there any restrictions as to > who can access and update things? I would be more than happy to help > out in getting some things fixed and additional things added. Do they > have a policy about non-students getting access? > > Thanks, > > Mike >> .... lots of really immportant stuff deleted ...

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Is there any "Community" repositories yet?
by Mike McGonagle 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hello all, I spent this last weekend working on a piece using ChucK, and quite frankly, it was something that I had implemented using PD, but was never really able to get one part to work successfully (probably more due to a design flaw or something). But, I was very happy to say that, using ChucK, I not only got the basic parts to work, but I also got the part that I was having trouble with in PD. I am very impressed with ChucK. So, basically, I would like to start posting some of these things to get some feedback from others, as well as some critiques of both the programming as well as the resulting music/sound construction. Is there a part of the WIKI that can be accessed by regular users to post some things? Or should I just post something to the list here (as an attachment)? Thanks, Mike

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byte ordering and sndbuf
by Robert Edge 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

hey there, just getting started playing with chuck. I downloaded ChuckJoy.zip from the developers list and noticed that sndbuf was (not)byte-swapping the .raw files. converting the samples to little-endian solved the problem. .wav and .aiff files work fine, I was just wondering if this is what is supposed to be happening, as all the rawwaves that come with STK are saved in the same format. using chuck 1.2.0.4 on Fedora Core 3, amd x86_64 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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winxp ChucK setup
by Julian Sorrel 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I'm just trying out ChucK for the first time, and I'm not able to get chuck to load a file. If I prompt to D:\Chuck\examples\, theoretically I should be able to enter "chuck otf_01.ck" and have it launch, right? I'm running Windows XP, and using the win32.exe ChucK (which I put in System32). I'd appreciate any help. Thanks, Newb. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Got holiday prints? See all the ways to get quality prints in your hands ASAP.

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