September 2007 - chuck-users - lists.cs.princeton.edu

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group
by Noah Thorp 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Hi All, I am starting a new group in the San Francisco Bay Area for making and using Computer Music Technology. The group's objective is to meet other computer music technology experts and enthusiasts for presentations of computer music techniques and technologies (all music genre outputs are welcome). Presentations and discussion will revolve around the use of Max/MSP, Csound, PD, ChucK, CLM, Live, Reaktor, Kyma, JMSL, SuperCollider as well as other computer music synthesis, composition, or live performance software. Attend to learn new techniques, better the code base, find collaborators, and find out what others are doing in studios, labs, and live work spaces around the Bay Area. If you would like to present a project or technology that you are working on please contact me. Also, if you have a venue that we can host events in (one or more times) let me know. Please pass this email on to other colleagues, collaborators, friends, or students who may be interested in attending. Join the group at: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/?gj=sj2 Feel free to contact me with any questions. All the best, Noah Thorp listenlabs.com / aquabu.com / rabbitsrum.com

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miniAudicle tab issues
by mike clemow 13 Sep '07

13 Sep '07

Salutations, I'm using miniAudicle version 0.1.3.7c on OS X intel and I'm having issues with tabs. Regardless of whether or not the smart-tab function is on or off, the first tab of a function or if statement code block is larger than the second one. I can't make the second one larger by adding more tab white space and usually have to make the first one shorter by 4 spaces or one tab. I didn't think so until now, but apparently I'm really anal about this... Cheers, Mike -- http://shadowofaculture.blogspot.com

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KBHit on a macbook the 2nd !
by Luigi Rensinghoff 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hi Chuckers Well, the quality of free software, depends on the mailing lists ;-) I am on a Macbook using miniaudicle, for some reason KBHit does not produce any output. Nobody wants to answer ??? Please !!! Luigi

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MIDI - rattus.net (Bruce Murphy)
by Josh Lawrence 10 Sep '07

10 Sep '07

Hello list! Just picked up a Roland Fantom XR, and I'm anxious to play around with it. Mentioned a few days/weeks/months ago on the list is Bruce Murphy's MIDI stuff for ChucK located here: http://www.rattus.net/~packrat/audio/ChucK/ (I think this was mentioned by Kassen...) How do I go about making this work? Can someone give me a basic tutorial as to how to integrate this into my ChucK environment? I see that there are two things that I need to worry about: midisender.ck std.stom ??? Thanks, Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com http://www.joshlawrencetrio.com

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.set() in example adsr.ck
by 2g 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

.set doesn't seem to be in the manual.pdf but thanks to the example adsr.ck i found it super useful when setting up things all at once and am wondering which parameter of ADSR it takes care of am using something like: sun_adsrs[n].set( 10::ms, 30::ms, .3, 5::ms); but before that was trying something like this (which didn't work ... i remember): sun_adsrs[n].attackTime(5::ms); sun_adsrs[n].attackRate(1.0); sun_adsrs[n].decayTime(30::ms); sun_adsrs[n].decayRate(.3); sun_adsrs[n].sustainLevel(.1); sun_adsrs[n].releaseTime(5::ms); sun_adsrs[n].releaseRate(0.0); there seems to be a lot of parameter over there in ADSR but don't see any comma in .set() to ignore(?) those tia -- 2g http://micro.ispretty.com

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KBHit on a macbook and some general questions
by Luigi Rensinghoff 09 Sep '07

09 Sep '07

Hi Chuckers i came across chuck and i am just checking it out. I was a PD-User for a while, and i have some questions. One is very practical and another is more general. I am on a Macbook using miniaudicle, for some reason KBHit does not produse any output. I am sure this was asked before, but i did not find it on the lists, any suggestions ?? How is chuck compared to Supercollider ? Would you say it has a Performance-advantage compared to Supercollider ? Thanks for now Bye Luigi

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Breakage - ChucK application?
by Josh Lawrence 07 Sep '07

07 Sep '07

Did you guys know about this? http://www.blackholeprojector.com/ It is a project called Breakage that uses ChucK as a back-end and a Java application as the front-end. Are there other projects like this? Josh -- Josh Lawrence http://www.hardbop200.com http://www.joshlawrencetrio.com

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Chuck and Grad School
by mike clemow 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

Hi folks, At the risk of being slightly off-topic, I wanted to write to the community to say that I'm taking a class right now on interactive sound at ITP (itp.nyu.edu) and I will be trying to do as many of the exercises as I can using Chuck. There is a strong Max/MSP contingent here and it seems not that many people had heard of or used Chuck much--this surprised me. I would really like to introduce this crowd to Chuck; one, because this group is a very pioneering in the field of interactive media and, two, because I'm very much a believer in Chuck and it's paradigm. Part of the class requirements is going to be keep an audio sketchbook and there will be an associated website for each of the students. Once it's set up, I will send out the link so that the community (especially newbies like me) can benefit from some vaguely structured example set. The agenda for the class is generally an introduction to electronic sound (historically and conceptually). I hope to lay some groundwork both for further adoption as a platform here at ITP as well as some resource building for the Chuck community. I hope it pans out. (As an after-thought, it occurs to me that I may have classmates out there on this list. Speak up!) Cheers, Michael

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spork ~ { } => big crash.
by Robin Davies 04 Sep '07

04 Sep '07

I'm not sure if this is a bug or not. Whether it supposed to work or not, I'm guessing that it shouldn't crash. Found in: miniaudicle 0.1.3.7. This works: spork ~ DelayedNoteOff(duration); This causes a crash. (In fact, anything with a { } following "spork ~" crashes.: fun void Play(float note, float velocity, Dur duration) { .... spork ~ { duration => now; instr.noteOff(0.6); } } Trying to execute any ensemble that includes this fragment causes miniaudicle to exit with a fatal error. If it's a bug, and if there's a bug tracking system, let me know, and I'll log full and exact details. The language spec is ambiguous about whether this is legal or not. But I could have sworn that this worked in previous builds (if for no other reason than that I liked the idea so much that I was tempted to swipe the idea for a language of my own). Robin Davies Lead Software Developer Quest Web Reports Quest Software 613.270.1569 Identity Management for the Windows Enterprise <http://wm.quest.com/reg/marketing/landing/identitymanagement/> : See how Quest helps you leverage your existing investment to solve the identity management challenge!

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Feature Request/Clarification?
by Adam Tindale 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi, I am a little confused about the me.args() functions that are available. It appears that you can pass arguments to shreds during instantiation. What about types? Is the data implicitly passed? Is it only primitive types that we should be passing here? I am assuming passing arrays would cause a massive ChucK boom? What about passing arguments to a currently running shred? I am using * as an imaginary operator that tells ChucK to pass arguments to running shreds. chuck * 1:foo This feature would be endlessly useful. I would like to write something like this: SinOsc s => dac; 440. => s.freq; true => bool keeplooping; while (keeplooping = true){ if( me.argHasMessage(0) ){ keeplooping=me.arg(0); } } Then you could do something like this: chuck * 1:false A related feature would be to declare types and max numbers of arguments for the shred. That way if a passed value violated these declarations the compiler would throw an error and we could begin the search, lest we err. Any light that can be shed on the topic of command line arguments would be greatly appreciated. The only docs appear to be on the web and not in the manual. I would love to rectify this. --art _________________________________________________________________ Enter to win a night a VIP night out at TIFF http://redcarpet.sympatico.msn.ca/

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