July 2008 - chuck-users - lists.cs.princeton.edu

Quick Joystick Question
by Inventor-66＠comcast.net 14 Jul '08

14 Jul '08

Hi, I just have a quick question for planning my HID project. Does the ChucK joystick HID interface support all six joystick axes? I saw that one of the examples on the web page uses four axes, so I believe the answer to be "yes", but I need to be certain. Thanks, Les Hall

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Bouncing Baby Website
by Inventor-66＠comcast.net 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Hi yet again, I would like to announce the birth of a bouncing baby website, my Guitar Motion Sensor project site. You may recall me writing at least one long, excited email about my plans to do a guitar HID project. Well, I'm getting really close to buying the parts and out of frustration waiting for finances to line up plus a desire to share the knowledge, I created a three-page website with all of my plans and reasoning about the project. The url is here: http://www.freedomodds.com/music/gms.html Actually after consulting forum contributors, especially Kassen, I have the hardware boiled down to two circuit boards that will cost $35 each, and a mere five solder connections. Then I'll mount the gizmo on my guitar's headstock and run a long USB cable down the length of the guitar and to the computer. I tried to be humorous and light-hearted in my writing style so people would enjoy reading it. I'd appreciate any comments about the site especially regarding project construction details or possible gotchas / errors. Plus I'll note that my website traffic has more than doubled in the few days since I put the site up, so I believe that people are interested in guitar effects HID. Making the world a better place via ChucK - kinda feels good, eh? Cheers! Les

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Re: [chuck-users] Intercepting and Routing Audio
by Inventor-66＠comcast.net 13 Jul '08

13 Jul '08

Thanks folks, Jack wouldn't run on my machine, it quit unexpectedly when I tried to run it. Perhaps I need an older version of the software for my 10.3.9 OSX, but anyway SoundFlower is working great! WooHoo, now I can even do effects processing of audio from iTunes! Les

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STK Modulate -- does it work?
by Chris McDaniel 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hello, Wondering if someone can explain STK Modulate to me; I just don't seem to get it! The code below is just a little test to try and figure it out -- works as expected if you comment out all the Modulate related bits, but as is, makes a muddy hum... Obviously I'm doing something wrong! Can anyone shine some light on this for me? Thanks ----------------------------------- // SinOsc m => dac; // the offending portion! SinOsc m => Modulate modu => dac; 60 => modu.vibratoRate; 1 => modu.vibratoGain; 1 => modu.randomGain; // fine from here... 200 => float freq; 0.3 => m.gain; while (true) { // just to keep it interesting... Std.rand2(1, 4) => int multipler; ((freq * 2) - freq) / 12 => float step; step * multipler => float newfreq; if (freq > 2000.0 || freq < 150.0) { if (freq < 150.0) { freq + newfreq => freq; } else { freq - newfreq => freq; } } else { if ( maybe ) { freq + newfreq => freq; } else { freq - newfreq => freq; } } freq => m.freq; 250::ms => now; }

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Chorus.modDepth broken?
by Atte André Jensen 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi It seems to me that the modDepth of chorus doesn't work, depth is always very deep, it has some effect on the sound, but very subtle and not at all what I expected. Can anyone confirm this? 5::second => dur play; 2::second => dur pause; SinOsc s => Chorus c => dac; .5 => float gain; <<<"first the default settings - sounds strange">>>; inBetween(); <<<"setting the modDepth to 0">>>; 0 => c.modDepth; inBetween(); <<<"setting the modDepth to 1">>>; 1 => c.modDepth; inBetween(); <<<"setting the modDepth to 1000">>>; 1000 => c.modDepth; inBetween(); <<<"setting the modDepth to .001">>>; .001 => c.modDepth; inBetween(); <<<"something like this is the best that can be achieved IFAICT">>>; .3 => c.mix; .001 => c.modFreq; play => now; fun void inBetween(){ gain => s.gain; play => now; 0 => s.gain; pause => now; gain => s.gain; } -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk

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webcam and touch
by lucas samaruga 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

Hi all Thinking of support for webcams, would it not be a good idea to integrate touchlib within chuck utilities? http://www.nuigroup.com/touchlib/ I do not know if this library is adequate, but the things I've seen do with it are very good. I think it would be a good utility for HID! What do you think? (perhaps an observation misplaced) Greetings Lucas

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ChucK mirror site up!
by Ge Wang 05 Jul '08

05 Jul '08

Dear all, Due to increased unavailability of the primary ChucK site, we now have coast to coast mirrors! The main ChucK site at Princeton: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ New left coast ChucK mirror at Stanford: http://chuck.stanford.edu/ These are synchronized from the same repository and should contain identical content. Hopefully at least one of these should be up at all times... Happy ChucKing! Ge!

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1.2.1.2?
by Chris McDaniel 05 Jul '08

05 Jul '08

Forgive me if this is common knowledge; I have not found any references in my searching... The SmirK page indicates that ChucK 1.2.1.2 is required; I have not seen this version available for download as of yet. Is there a repository somewhere? Thanks, Chris

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music made with chuck
by Atte André Jensen 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi There as been a trend on the linux audio list, where people post "music made with linux". So here it is is, a small interlude I did today in chuck, controlled in realtime by my bcr-2000: http://atte.dk/modlys_oeve/extra/lofi.mp3 There are a few mistakes in there, but that's the way it came out... -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk

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MiniA background colour under Linux
by Kassen 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Spencer, Under Ubuntu (latest mainstream release, kept up to date) I can't get the back-ground colour to change using the editing settings. All other colours work. Ubuntu uses the Gnome windows manager (and so do I). It might be worth pointing out that the background stays white which is also my system's colour set for everything that's not black (I have texts and window headers black) so it could be a conflict between the system setting and the Mini's, conceivably. I haven't yet tried whether this also affects my Windows computer. I also noted that while I can change individual elements (aside from background) with the changes taking effect after confirming them but resetting to the defaults (because I didn't want light pastel colours if I couldn't also have a dark grey background....) only took effect after restarting the MiniA. I'd be happy to run more experiments if you tell me what to look for. Yours, Kas.

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