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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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Demonic Vocoder
by Inventor-66＠comcast.net 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi all, The other day I created a ChucK one-liner in kijjaz's style. It converts your voice into that of a demon from Hell, or Darth Vader if you breathe hard enough. This one is so kewl I just had to post it. // Demonic Vocoder adc => PitShift p => dac; adc.gain(10); 1 => p.mix; p.shift (0.8); day => now; It works via an intentional feedback loop from the speakers to the microphone, so adjust the volume for proper effect. Then say "ChucK, I'm your father. Join me on the dark side. Together we will rule the musicverse!". Muhuhaha!!! Les (Inventor)

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comma is and? undocumented feature
by Kassen 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Dear list, Consider the following; =============== if( 1 , 0) { <<<"false?">>>; } if( 1 , 1) { <<<"true?">>>; } ============= I think this isn't according to the language specs but it runs just fine. It seems that the comma equates to "&&"? it's not problematic in the slightest but it's not according to the specs either, I think, and a bit confusing. What's up here? Yours, Kas.

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Re: [chuck-users] music made with chuck
by Inventor-66＠comcast.net 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Here is a song I made with ChucK using my ChucK Lab software and Audacity to piece it together (warning it has harsh language and is very dark): http://www.freedomodds.com/music/songs/Schizophrenia.mp3 It's about my battle with schizophrenia. Folks on the forum liked it. Les Hall (Inventor)

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http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ down again
by Atte André Jensen 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hi http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ is down again 1) Can I find the html documentation somewhere else or do I have to wait for the site to come up and rip everything from the web? 2) Why is this site down so often? It's really a pain! -- peace, love & harmony Atte http://atte.dk | http://myspace.com/attejensen http://anagrammer.dk | http://modlys.dk

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feature ideas
by Renato Fabbri 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

my hacking skills are too small to do this things myself, so here goes some ideas for chuck: 1) the same chuck executable being able to output on both jack and alsa would be good. 2) I think that LISA would be even better if we could load a sound file directly like we do with SndBuf. Something like: "mysoundfile.wav" => mylisaobject.read; 3) If i spork a shred that defines a public class, i can't spork it again (if i need some changes in the class design for example). Is there a way to destroy or overwrite a class definition? thanks, renato

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nameless empty arrays
by Kassen 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

Dear list, //this is fine fun int[] foo() { return [1, 2, 5]; } //this isn't fun int[] bar() { return []; } ChucK and me disagree here. I'm of the opinion that "[]" is a perfectly fine array of integers (albeit of length 0) and hence correct. ChucK is of the opinion that there's a syntax error.I suppose the issue is in "[]" not having a explicid type but I said what the type was going to be up-front. In fact the only way of defining a array of length 0 seems to be this; int empty_int_array[0]; //and while we're at it float empty_float_array[0]; //etc I find that less then elegant. Yours, Kas.

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text highlighting
by Renato Fabbri 20 Jun '08

20 Jun '08

i think that i have seen something about text highlighting on the list. i wanted to use mini-audicle's highlighting on kate. any idea? (i can't reach the mailing lists archive)

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Envelope.rate() READ
by Kassen 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Fellow ChucKists, Envelope.rate() is a read-write function so I thought I'd try to use it to detect the current movement of a envelope, like this: ========================================= Envelope e => blackhole; e.value(0); e.duration(second); e.target(1); now + 3::second => time later; while(now <later) { <<<e.rate()>>>; 10::ms => now; } ================ It now turns out that .rate(), when read from, reports the rate of change Envelope had when it was last set to a target, not necessarily it's current rate of change (which may well be 0). I'd like to propose this behaviour to be changed towards Envelope always reporting it's current rate of change. Because Envelope is a part of the STK we may need to be careful with that as other Ugens inherit from it so such changes might affect those. Still; there are a few STK Ugens that are on The List to have a look at because of their envelope (probably ADSR) based behaviour anyway. Stricktly speaking this change could break some ChucK code as well but I find it hard to imagine situations where the current behaviour is more usefull then my proposed change. Yours, Kas.

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