Hi Robin and all!
I’d particularly like to get started on writing external C++ UGens for Chuck. I own source for some particularly useful functions that I’d love to get tied into Chuck (intention to donate as an external project), but I can’t seem to find the procedure for loading an external dll either from Chuck code, or from the command-line, or otherwise. All the code seems to be there to load an external DLL, but it doesn’t seem to be hooked up to anything yet. Am I missing something?
You aren't missing a thing. The functionality is there, but we have not exposed it. Rather, we provided an older mechanism in v1, but we took it back out for v2 because we didn't have time to finish it for the new type-system.
Are there any immediate plans to expose this, or should I get busy hacking away?
This feature is on the high priority list. We will try to get it re-exposed in the next two minor releases.
UGens that I’m interested in implementing: - hosting VST plugins in chuck (a huge priority for me, have source code, will integrate, if nobody else is doing this) - maybe Chuck as a VST plugin (not a huge priority for me) - Some more basic instrument building blocks for ugens, band-limited waveforms, particulary. - High-quality sample interpolators.
(4x) Hooray!! Best, Ge!