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miniAudicle alternative
by O L 18 Sep '15

18 Sep '15

Hello all. I have been learning and enjoying ChucK but I'm running into eyestrain issues with the white background of miniAudicle. In the past I have used Sublime text for CSS/HTML with no issue, so ideally I'm looking for something with a dark background. I've seen things referencing using vim or emacs, but I have no idea how to get that up and running. I've searched the list but all the posts I see assume a level of competency with these editors that I don't have. Is there a resource for getting started (on OSX if that matters) from a beginners perspective with ChucK on something other that miniAudicle? Thanks in advance.

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Glisson ChucK Program
by Mitch Kaufman 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

Joel, Casper, Thanks very much for your help with this. Regards, Mitch

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Glisson ChucK Program
by Mitch Kaufman 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Hi list, I am a relatively new user and am enjoying exploring different areas of ChucK. I was trying to develop a program to create glissons or short particles with a moving frequency range. I came up with an approach but I think there may be an easier way. Here is the program: SinOsc sin => dac; Envelope env => blackhole; 500.0 => sin.freq => float x; //starting frequency 100::ms => dur rampTime; //ramp time period 0 => env.value; //starting value rampTime => env.duration; 400.0 => env.target; //ramp to target - in this case, 900 Hz now + rampTime => time t; while( now < t ) { // modulate frequency by envelope x+env.value() => sin.freq; // advance time by 100 samples 100::samp => now; } I think there may be an easier way of doing this using: Envelope env => SinOsc sin => dac; But I can't seem to get it working using a proper sin.sync value. Does anyone have any ideas on improving the approach? Regards, Mitch

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question about Jack / Chuck interactions
by Daniel Chapiro 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi - I hope someone has run into this before. After I installed Jack (to use with Faust, not with Chuck), each time that Chuck runs, it issues a bunch of error messages. If Jack is running, the list of errors is several pages long. If Jack is not running, I get: JAR: Blacklisted client Xquartz JAR: Blacklisted client Terminal JAR: Blacklisted client loginwindow JAR: Blacklisted client Xcode JAR: Blacklisted client SystemUIServer Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started JAR: jack server not running or rejected client In either case ChucK seems to run OK. Is this a bug, or is there something that I can do to avoid these messages? Thanks! Daniel

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Static Arrays
by John Clavin 25 Jul '15

25 Jul '15

Hi, I did a ChucK project last year that used public classes and static ints to send data to machines. I was wondering if there are any new developments in sending static arrays to machines. The newest information I can find on this subject dates back to 2007. John Clavin

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OscIn: error: unable to create server instance
by ermina＠studioplume.com 09 Jun '15

09 Jun '15

Hello, so far i have been chucking exclusively from within the miniAudicle (1.3.3). I am using the jack-enabled linux 64 bits version, on Linux Mint Betsy (which is mostly Debian 8). Today i wanted to try the command-line (chuck --loop and chuck + file.ck) and it seems the behavior of the VM is somehow different. Instantiating an OscIn object does not work in the cli, it returns: "OscIn: error: unable to create server instance". I was using the same version of chuck (1.3.5.0) as bundled with miniAudicle. Using -v9, the logs between chuck --loop and miniAudicle console are identical. If i start the VM in the miniAudicle (accepting network commands) and then use chuck + file.ck, file.ck is shredded correctly and OscIn created. That problem might be related to my config since on a second machine this error does not happen (1.3.4.0 64bits. I copied the chuck executable over to the first computer and the error was there again. Is there something obvious i am missing / should be looking for ? Thanks for your help. . e

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Help.
by J Alexander Diaz 08 Jun '15

08 Jun '15

Hi Folks! I'm needing help understanding what the code for the frequency down below in bold text is doing. Context: I'm trying to build a code that will randomly pick frequencies and rhythms within a given range. As time passes my goal is to write a code that will also allow the frequencies and rhythms to change. I know I'm not ready to understand how to code this yet as I am teaching myself at my own pace. But I would like some help if maybe someone could talk me through what the frequency portion of this code is doing. I took the frame of most of my code from a ChucK example and am changing it for a composition of mine. I don't understand the relationship between the scale part and the freuency part. I don't understand the Math.pow. I do understand math.random2, int, and freq. Thank you much!! // Sitar Sitar sit => JCRev r => Echo a => dac; // gain .56 => r.gain; // reverb mix 1.12 => r.mix; // max delay for echo 1120::ms => a.max; // set delay for echo 112::ms => a.delay; // initial effect mix 0.0 => a.mix; *// scale* *[ 15 ] @=> int scale[];* *// freq* * scale[Math.random2(0,scale.cap()-1)] => int freq;* * 220.0 * Math.pow( 1.05946, (Math.random2(0,2)*12) + freq ) => sit.freq;* // loop while( true ){ //pluck Math.random2f( 0.1, 0.9 ) => sit.noteOn; //time Math.random2f( .01, 1000 )::ms => now; } -- J. Alexander Diaz www.diazsounds.com MFA Student - Music Composition jalexander(a)diazsounds.com [image: VCFA] <http://vcfa.edu/>

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Importing modules
by Ronan Klyne 29 May '15

29 May '15

Hi all, I apologise if I'm just missing the relevant documentation, but I can't see how to import classes from one module into a second module. I want to declare a big base class once and subclasses in a different file. Can anyone tell me if this is possible? Thanks, Ronan -- # r

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ChucK and vim
by Meino.Cramer＠gmx.de 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi, Since vim is my favourite editor since years I want to use chuck with vim. I tried miniAudicle but I get no sound for whatever reason. I googled for 'chuck vim' and found several different matches...but what to choose and what is recomended? Thank you very much in advance for any help and hint! Best regards, Meino

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ChucK, JCRev and stability (frequent crashes)!
by Niklas Reppel 28 May '15

28 May '15

Hi everybody, i have some osc-triggered synth shreds like the one attached, and tried to spice things up using pan control (basic, i know ...). Now, for the music i have in my mind, the respective shred is triggered about 10 - 15 times per second via OSC, and there are multiple of those shreds, including some granulation shreds. Now, even when i only trigger the attached shred with different pan values, ChucK crashes after a few seconds ... so i don't know, is the shred faulty, or is chuck simply not capable for what i have in mind ? Btw, i'm using Arch linux on a pretty recent laptop with plenty of ram and a fast processor, so resources should not be an issue ... ChucK error message: (JACK) the JACK server is shutting down this client... ... stream stopped and closed! [chuck]: cleaning up... terminate called after throwing an instance of 'RtError' what(): RtApi:: a stream is not open! JACK error message subgraph starting at ChucK timed out (subgraph_wait_fd=9, status = 0, state = Running, pollret = 0 revents = 0x0) Regards, nik

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