September 2012 - chuck-users - lists.cs.princeton.edu

granular music recommendations?
by AlgoMantra 23 Jul '24

23 Jul '24

Yo All....I'm trying to download and study some of the best music out there which features granular synthesis. I haven't heard much yet beyond Iannis Xenakis, but I'd love to know what your favorites are. Perhaps it would be worthwhile putting up a torrent of the same. If possible, kindly provide links to mp3 files or any other type of free downloads. (What do you think of Jaron Lanier's music?) http://www.jaronlanier.com/musicdownload.html cheers! ------- -.- 1/f ))) --. ------- ... http://www.algomantra.com

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odd Hid behavior maybe just on OS 10.7
by Jeff Albert 09 Oct '12

09 Oct '12

Hi all, We are doing a piece in our laptop orch that uses Hid input from the keyboard and mouse. The group does not have matching machines. All but 1 are Macs, with the OS ranging from 10.6.x to 10.8.2. The code (pasted below) works on the windows machine and the 10.6 and 10.8 Macs, but not on any of the machines running OS 10.7.4. Thoughts? Thanks, Jeff --Jeff Albert Assistant Professor (Extraordinary) of Music Industry Studies Loyola University New Orleans Office: Communications/Music Complex 428P Office Phone: (504) 865-2606 Google Voice: (504) 315-5167 jvalbert(a)loyno.edu (mailto:jvalbert@loyno.edu) http://www.loyno.edu/~jvalbert // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // Mouse Bow (v1) // by Jeff Lipscomb (February 9, 2010) // // The keyboard controls the pitch of this instrument, // while the mouse controls both the loudness and the timbre. // Clicking any button will turn the note on, // while unclicking that button will turn it off. // The SPEED of the left-right motion controls how loud the note is // (the faster the motion, the louder it will be.) // The up-down position of the mouse on the screen controls how // bright/complex the note's timbre will be. // (the higher up, the more brighter it will be.) // // (push key that wasn't mapped for a really cool sound, like '~') // ---------------------------------------------------------------- // // some tuning and timbre-related variables 600.0 => float cFrq; 18.07 => float nDiv; 2.01 => float mRat; 950.0 => float hFlt; 400.0 => float lFlt; // initialize and test for a mouse Hid hi; HidMsg msg; 0 => int device; if( me.args() ) me.arg(0) => Std.atoi => device; if( !hi.openMouse( device ) ) me.exit(); // UGen guts SinOsc mod => SinOsc car => ADSR e => LPF f1 => HPF f2 => Chorus c => JCRev r => dac; e.set( 10::ms, 5::ms, .85, 10::ms ); e.keyOff(); // initial parameters for the UGens cFrq => car.freq; cFrq * mRat => mod.freq; //1.07aa hFlt => f1.freq; lFlt => f2.freq; 1000.0 => mod.gain; 0.0 => e.gain; // sync is for an FM instrument 2 => car.sync; // initializing variables for controlling function int base; float a0; float a1; float a2; float a3; int count; // initialize keyboard array // MIDI pitch numbers are assigned to most of the keys // which are represented by their ASCII numbers int kb[112]; 49 => kb[90]; // z 50 => kb[88]; // x 51 => kb[67]; // c 52 => kb[86]; // v 53 => kb[66]; // b 54 => kb[78]; // n 55 => kb[77]; // m 56 => kb[44]; // , 57 => kb[46]; // . 58 => kb[47]; // / 59 => kb[65]; // a 60 => kb[83]; // s 61 => kb[68]; // d 62 => kb[70]; // f 63 => kb[71]; // g 64 => kb[72]; // h 65 => kb[74]; // j 66 => kb[75]; // k 67 => kb[76]; // l 68 => kb[59]; // ; 69 => kb[81]; // q 70 => kb[87]; // w 71 => kb[69]; // e 72 => kb[82]; // r 73 => kb[84]; // t 74 => kb[89]; // y 75 => kb[85]; // u 76 => kb[73]; // i 77 => kb[79]; // o 78 => kb[80]; // p 79 => kb[49]; // 1 80 => kb[50]; // 2 81 => kb[51]; // 3 82 => kb[52]; // 4 83 => kb[53]; // 5 84 => kb[54]; // 6 85 => kb[55]; // 7 86 => kb[56]; // 8 87 => kb[57]; // 9 88 => kb[48]; // 0 // initialize tuning function // for a 10-TET tuning scheme instead of 12-TET fun float midiTune( int x ) { return cFrq * Math.pow( 2.0, ( x - 69 ) / nDiv ); } //the keyboard detect function fun void thePits() { Hid hi2; HidMsg msg2; 0 => int device2; if( me.args() ) me.arg(0) => Std.atoi => device2; if( !hi2.openKeyboard( device2 ) ) me.exit(); while( true ) { hi2 => now; while( hi2.recv( msg2 ) ) { if( msg2.isButtonDown() ) { midiTune( kb[msg2.ascii] ) => a3; a3 * mRat => a2; set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); } } } } //sporking out the keyboard function spork ~ thePits(); // custom function controls parameters of note set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); // infinite loop while( true ) { // time advances when the mouse does something hi => now; // determines how to respond when mouse does something while( hi.recv( msg ) ) { if( msg.isMouseMotion() ) { // X-Axis controls how loud the note is if( msg.deltaX ) { Std.fabs( msg.deltaX ) * .0083 - .0083 => a1; //sets gain set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); } // Y-Axis controls how bright the note is if( msg.deltaY ) { Std.fabs( -msg.deltaY * .0083 + a0 ) => a0; //sets index (brightness) set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); } } else if( msg.isWheelMotion() ) { // for now the mouse wheel controls pitch if( msg.deltaY ) { msg.deltaY * .8333 + a2 => a2; //sets carrier freq set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); } } else if( msg.isButtonDown() ) { // pressing button presses the "bow" into the "string" msg.which => base; count++; if( count == 1 ) e.keyOn(); 10::ms => now; set( base, a0, a1, a2, a3 ); } else if( msg.isButtonUp() ) { // lifting button also lifts "bow" from the "string" msg.which => base; count--; if( !count ) { e.keyOff(); 0.0 => a1; // just making sure each note starts from 0dB } } } } fun void set( int base, float v0, float v1, float v2, float v3 ) { //changes pitches v3 => car.freq; //changes mod freq v2 => mod.freq; //gain v1 => e.gain; //mod index ( 500 * ( v0 + 1 ) ) => mod.gain; }

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dumb python question...
by forrest curo 07 Oct '12

07 Oct '12

Okay, I can easily get python to start a chuck shred... My question: What's the easiest way to let it feed that shred notes? -- rather than the burn-the-house-down kludge of killing the old shred, starting a new one with new command-line?

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get hash keys from associative array
by George Locke 02 Oct '12

02 Oct '12

Hey, int hash[]; 0 => hash["zero"]; 1 => hash["one"]; hash.keys @=> string keys[]; Is there anything like this, some way for an associative array to tell you what keys it has? Ge apparently mentioned it as a development goal for 6 years ago ( https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/pipermail/chuck-users/2006-March/000436.html ), but searching for "key" in the versions page shows no update in this area. Thanks, George

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Begin the beguine
by Alberto Alassio 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Hi guys this is my first thread because I've download Chuck just yesterday night and I'm trying to make something with this today (yes we can!). Really nice world! I read something from the manual ( the beginning tutorial) and also downloaded chuck pages where objects and other things about language are written. The question is : how can I understand every single line of Chuck? And I'm gonna make an example: foo.ck example. I was looking at this and also to other ones to understand how they work but... I saw that there are objects that are explained in Chuck homepage (sinOsc, delayD, etc) but where can I find informations about Std? Hi?How can I understand what does Hi.cap mean? These are just examples, is there a place where every command is explained? Or maybe (and probably) it's just me not so good searcher? Thank you everybody Balbit

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Looping
by Alberto Alassio 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

I cannot understand how the while structure has to be used. I mean, I understood that while ( true ) means infinite loop and also that while ( n::second => now ) means an "n" second loop duration but... If I just want to do a really stupid thing like a Sine at 220 Hz that sounds for 2 seconds and then stops for 2 seconds and then goes again. How could I do? I thought that it was necessary just to do something like this SinOsc s => dac; .2 => s.gain; 220 => s.freq; while ( 2::second => now) 0 =>s.gain but I know that it's not the right way, also because in this method I would have to rewrite this thing an infinite ( whiletrue ahahah) number of times to have what I'm looking for. And I don't actually understand {} . How am I supposed to use these? Thanks

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1.3.1.2 (chimera) released!
by Ge Wang 21 Sep '12

21 Sep '12

Greetings all! chuck-1.3.1.2 (chimera) is available: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ http://chuck.stanford.edu/ This release addresses some of the recent issues discussed on this list, includes 2 important bug fixes, and adds automatic sample rate detection for JACK as well as others. release notes are copied below. Once again, thanks to everyone who reported issues and helped to track things down and test! Please continue to let us know if you run into any issues! Thank you and keep on ChucKin'! Best wishes, Spencer, Ge + on behalf of chuck team! 1.3.1.2 --- - (added) chuck now automatically detects and uses next highest or closest (in that order) system sample rate in the case where the default is not available; if a sample rate requested via --srate: is not available, an error will be encountered with a message. - (fixed) base parent object is correctly accounted for by new shred when sporking member functions (thanks to Michael Heuer for reporting and narrowing this down) - (fixed) popping local variables from the operand stack in cases where the datatype size is larger than int-size; this is a bug introduced with 64-bit in 1.3.1.0, and exhibited on 32-bit systems only. (thanks to Simon Steptoe reporting and narrowing this down) - (fixed) opening real-time audio with 0 input channels should now work, once again.

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Chuck and Control Voltage ( CV )
by henrique matias 19 Sep '12

19 Sep '12

Does anyone has experience / references about it ? Am currently controlling my CV stuff using http://www.expert-sleepers.co.uk/silentway.html and outputting via my MOTU card.. Any references/ideas are more than welcome! have a great day ( :

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Re: [chuck-users] STK instrument segmentation fault
by John Ellinger 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi Ge, We met at SLEO. I'm using the newest chuck version: 1.3.1.2 (chimera) mac os x : intel : 64-bit. Re: FM sound Yes I recall reading a forum message that FM was an abstract class. Maybe a simple output message could inform users they need to subclass FM. Re: Brass sound I recorded and attached a small example of the Brass sound I get (BrassTest.mp3). To my ears it sounds distorted. (chuck code at end of email). Re: Mandolin ChucK plays correctly and seg faults when finished. This happens consistently on my MacPro. Here's a portion of the crash log. ============================================================= Process: chuck [739] Path: /usr/local/bin/chuck Identifier: chuck Version: ??? (???) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: bash [645] Date/Time: 2012-09-16 16:41:55.256 -0500 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.7.4 (11E53) Report Version: 9 Interval Since Last Report: 103887 sec Crashes Since Last Report: 29 Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 4 Anonymous UUID: ABA8BB91-CFBC-40A1-BD37-C0F836D908F5 Crashed Thread: 4 com.apple.audio.IOThread.client Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: 0x000000000000000d, 0x0000000000000000 VM Regions Near 0: --> __TEXT 0000000100000000-00000001001b1000 [ 1732K] r-x/rwx SM=COW /usr/local/bin/chuck Application Specific Information: objc[739]: garbage collection is OFF Thread 0:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff85020e42 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff86869dea nanosleep + 164 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff86869bb5 usleep + 53 3 chuck 0x0000000100045fca Chuck_VM::run() + 426 4 chuck 0x00000001000990ac main + 10924 5 chuck 0x00000001000017bd _start + 203 6 chuck 0x00000001000016f1 start + 33 Thread 1:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff850217e6 kevent + 10 1 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8667f78a _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 923 2 libdispatch.dylib 0x00007fff8667e31a _dispatch_mgr_thread + 54 Thread 2: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff85020e42 __semwait_signal + 10 1 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff86869dea nanosleep + 164 2 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff86869bb5 usleep + 53 3 chuck 0x0000000100120dc1 _ZL7kb_loopPv + 113 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b38bf _pthread_start + 335 5 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b6b75 thread_start + 13 Thread 3: 0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x00007fff8502047a __accept + 10 1 chuck 0x0000000100040982 ck_accept + 66 2 chuck 0x000000010009b252 otf_cb(void*) + 530 3 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b38bf _pthread_start + 335 4 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b6b75 thread_start + 13 Thread 4 Crashed:: com.apple.audio.IOThread.client 0 chuck 0x00000001000f2858 Mandolin::~Mandolin() + 56 1 chuck 0x00000001000d8813 Mandolin_dtor + 35 2 chuck 0x0000000100082244 Chuck_Object::~Chuck_Object() + 132 3 chuck 0x0000000100093be1 Chuck_UGen::~Chuck_UGen() + 33 4 chuck 0x00000001000491dd Chuck_VM_Shred::shutdown() + 317 5 chuck 0x0000000100048ee3 Chuck_VM_Shred::~Chuck_VM_Shred() + 35 6 chuck 0x0000000100048e8f Chuck_VM_Shred::~Chuck_VM_Shred() + 15 7 chuck 0x00000001000461be Chuck_VM::compute() + 206 8 chuck 0x0000000100046034 Chuck_VM::run(long) + 84 9 chuck 0x00000001000ac842 Digitalio::cb2(void*, void*, unsigned int, double, unsigned int, void*) + 434 10 chuck 0x00000001000b7316 RtApiCore::callbackEvent(unsigned int, AudioBufferList const*, AudioBufferList const*) + 358 11 chuck 0x00000001000b7197 callbackHandler(unsigned int, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList const*, AudioTimeStamp const*, AudioBufferList*, AudioTimeStamp const*, void*) + 23 12 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x00007fff82ca59fa HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOWorkLoop() + 2058 13 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x00007fff82ca5151 HALC_ProxyIOContext::IOThreadEntry(void*) + 73 14 com.apple.audio.CoreAudio 0x00007fff82ca500c HALB_IOThread::Entry(void*) + 78 15 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b38bf _pthread_start + 335 16 libsystem_c.dylib 0x00007fff868b6b75 thread_start + 13 ============================================================= // Twinkle code with record function Brass inst => dac => Gain g => WvOut w => blackhole; "BrassTest.wav" => w.wavFilename; 0.5 => g.gain; // Melody, Number Of Beats [ [67.0, 1.0], [67.0, 1.0], [74.0, 1.0], [74.0, 1.0], [76.0, 1.0], [76.0, 1.0], [74.0, 2.0], [72.0, 1.5], [72.0, 0.5], [71.0, 1.5], [71.0, 0.5], [69.0, 1.5], [69.0, 0.5], [67.0, 2.0] ] @=> float tune[][]; 0 => int transpose; 120 => int tempo; // Play phrase 1 for( 0 => int i; i < tune.cap(); i++) { Std.mtof( tune[i][0] + transpose ) => inst.freq; inst.noteOn(1.0); 60000::ms * tune[i][1] / tempo => now; inst.noteOff(0); } w.closeFile; John John Ellinger email: info(a)mibac.com MiBAC Music Software 1019 College St. Music Instruction By A Computer Northfield MN 55057 http://www.mibac.com

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STK instrument segmentation fault
by John Ellinger 16 Sep '12

16 Sep '12

Hi, I'm using chuck version: 1.3.1.2-rc1 (chimera) mac os x 10.7.4 : intel : 64-bit. In preparing a demo of all STK instrument sounds for class each of the instruments instruments played OK at their default settings except these three: Brass, Mandolin, and FM. Here's the code I used ============================== //Twinkle Twinkle // STK instruments /* BandedWG BlowBotl BlowHole Bowed >>> Brass - very distorted Clarinet Flute >>> Mandolin - segmentation fault ModalBar Moog Saxofony Shakers Sitar StifKarp VoicForm >>> FM - segmentation fault BeeThree FMVoices HevyMetl PercFlut Rhodey TubeBell Wurley */ Wurley inst => dac; // Melody, Number Of Beats [ [67.0, 1.0], [67.0, 1.0], [74.0, 1.0], [74.0, 1.0], [76.0, 1.0], [76.0, 1.0], [74.0, 2.0], [72.0, 1.5], [72.0, 0.5], [71.0, 1.5], [71.0, 0.5], [69.0, 1.5], [69.0, 0.5], [67.0, 2.0] ] @=> float tune[][]; 0 => int transpose; 120 => int tempo; // Play phrase 1 for( 0 => int i; i < tune.cap(); i++) { Std.mtof( tune[i][0] + transpose ) => inst.freq; inst.noteOn(1.0); 60000::ms * tune[i][1] / tempo => now; inst.noteOff(0); } John John Ellinger email: info(a)mibac.com MiBAC Music Software 1019 College St. Music Instruction By A Computer Northfield MN 55057 http://www.mibac.com

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