Re: [chuck-users] "playing" chuck

Josh Lawrence wrote:

On 5/30/07, Stephen Sinclair wrote:

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i'm personally more into beat-oriented electronic music, so i imagine perhaps having a bank of samples at my disposal for messing with might be helpful.

glad you brought that up - I was going to scour the manual for this, but since you mentioned it...does chuck have any sort of mechanism for dealing with .wav files? specifically, playing samples? just point me in the right direction...

Definitely check out the examples/hanoi++.ck example. It really helped me figure out how to deal with .wav files in the ChucK manner. My complaint is that it took a while to figure out what exactly was going on, since it isn't straightforward like "load a file, tell it to play"; it's "load a stream, constantly play samples until the stream ends, and set the position to 0 to restart it". Basically, my tactic when using a bank of samples is to now load them, set them all to the end of the files (so they don't play immediately upon loading), and when I want them to play, I just set the position to 0. I guess it does offer more flexibility in certain circumstances, but why isn't there (or /is/ there?) a more straightforward way to play a .wav file like a simple sampler (load, play)? Sorry for the jumbled thoughts, but I just woke up. :D -Drew