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Recommended books?
by Carl-Gustaf Harroch 05 Aug '07

05 Aug '07

Chuckist, Are there any books that you recommend for general computerized music? If I want, for instance, to get involved in the development of chuck, which book would you recommend? Especially about general notions such as oscilators. music theory, tempo, sampling etc... I am quite new to all of this but would really love to get into the core of music programming. I have been through the chuck manuals but it is stil quite high level and would like to understand the basis of the language itself. Any help much appreciated. ./Carl

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rec.ck gives an error and rec-auto.ck becomes mono
by 2g 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

came up with the idea to turn my podcast http://www002.upp.so-net.ne.jp/buyobuyo/micro/rss.xml "chuck is in dub"(learning chuck} oriented did chuck isthisokay.ck maybe.ck rec.ck and it became [rec.ck]:line(7): class 'Shred' has no member 'getArg' chuck isthisokay.ck maybe.ck rec-auto.ck is okay but mono(might be as-is) is there a better example that i write stereo .wav to my hdd? i also wonder where i do 1 => w.record; 0 => w.record; oh! in the .ck file? this is what i have as isthisokay.ck and maybe.ck is something similar SinOsc s1 => Gain g1 => dac; SinOsc s2 => g1; SinOsc s3 => PRCRev g3 => dac.left; SinOsc s4 => PRCRev g4 => dac.right; .25 => g1.gain; .25 => g3.gain; .25 => g4.gain; while( true ) { Std.rand2(32, 64) * 55.0 / 32.0 => s1.freq; 5322::ms => now; s1.freq() * Std.rand2(8, 16) / 4.0 => s2.freq; s2.freq() * Std.rand2(16, 32) / 16.0 => s3.freq; s2.freq() * Std.rand2(16, 32) / 16.0 => s4.freq; 222::ms => now; } -- 2g http://micro.ispretty.com

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Hardware information?
by Carl-Gustaf Harroch 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

Chuckists! First mail in this mailing list and there will probably be many more. I am a newbie with chuck. Been reading a bit and I am very excited to get my brain into this. Thanks all for putting this public. This looks exactly the type of language I ve been looking for in the last couple of months. I come from the programming side rather then musical. Anyway, my question relates to hardware. I am using ubuntu or gentoo OS. Do you have any hardware recommendation for a sound card? My current inboard card flickers the sound when I launch a simple sin loop. Even without any sound, I can hear some noises - I just think my current card is really really bad. Do you have any suggestions for a good sound card? What is the best solution - get an amplifier and use a numeric2analog converter? Secondly, I guess ALSA is the way to go or JACK, any documentation on that? Thanks, ./.Carl

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[oh my god] hanoi.ck
by 2g 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

was to keep quiet for a while but.. was just curious what kind of vietnam sound it would make and did chuck hanoi.ck !! arrrrgh what is it doing? it seems to have moved many files instead of making sound sould i undo? if yes how do i? tia -- 2g http://micro.ispretty.com

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can there be many ::ms in while?
by 2g 03 Aug '07

03 Aug '07

have just started coding on chuck was looking for way to let s1 have 3 overtones flying around him i know it should be something other than rand2f to handle integers but my q is about ::ms in while i wonder which one of these are the right way to use them i thought the latter might be safe but it seems to give one never changing long note and maybe only one another is floating around but none of them give me an error style one: SinOsc s1 => PRCRev g => dac; SinOsc s2 => g; SinOsc s3 => g; SinOsc s4 => g; .25 => g.gain => g.mix; while( true ) { 500::ms => now; Std.rand2f(30.0, 220.0) => s1.freq; 170::ms => now; s1.freq() * Std.rand2f(8.0, 16.0) / 8.0 => s2.freq; 75::ms => now; s2.freq() * Std.rand2f(16.0, 32.0) / 16.0 => s3.freq; 111::ms => now; s2.freq() * Std.rand2f(16.0, 32.0) / 16.0 => s4.freq; } style two: SinOsc s1 => PRCRev g => dac; SinOsc s2 => g; SinOsc s3 => g; SinOsc s4 => g; .25 => g.gain => g.mix; while( true ) { 200::ms => now; Std.rand2f(30.0, 220.0) => s1.freq; } while( true ) { 170::ms => now; s1.freq() * Std.rand2f(8, 16) / 4.0 => s2.freq; } while( true ) { 75::ms => now; s2.freq() * Std.rand2f(16, 32) / 8.0 => s3.freq; } while( true ) { 111::ms => now; s2.freq() * Std.rand2f(16, 32) / 8.0 => s4.freq; } -- 2g http://micro.ispretty.com

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