Dear friends, chuck-1.5.0.1 (chai) has been released: https://chuck.stanford.edu/ https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ This is a patch release following the major chuck-1.5 release: --- * fixed HID joystick input on Windows * fixed a potential-crash-on-shutdown type system issue * fixed binary FileIO reading of signed/unsigned integers * improved: Math.random*() functions now internally use a standard Mersenne Twister random number generator (mt19937); this greatly improves the quality of RNG output, especially on Windows * added support for 24-bit, 32-bit, and 64-bit WvOut audio file output * miniAudicle (Windows and Linux) now has a "Audio driver" drop-down selection in the Preferences dialog window; this selections allows for run-time selection of different drivers: "DirectSound", "WASAPI", or "ASIO" on Windows; "Jack", "Pulse", or "ALSA" on Linux * (Linux) fixed miniAudicle compilation with Qt6 --- Full release notes: https://chuck.stanford.edu/release/VERSIONS WebChuck and IDE have also been updated to 1.5.0.1: https://chuck.stanford.edu/webchuck/ https://chuck.stanford.edu/ide/ --- Also, we'd like to signal-boost Clint Hoagland's excellent video tutorial series, "Creating Electronic Music with Chuck": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toFvb6uqiDc&list=PL-9SSIBe1phI_r3JsylOZXZyAXuEKRJOS Made in ChucK: here is a recent Stanford Laptop Orchestra concert: https://slork.stanford.edu/events/2023/spring/ Join the ChucK community on Discord! https://discord.gg/ENr3nurrx8 --- Keep on ChucKin, ChucK Team [chuck-1.5.0.1 contributors] Spencer Salazar, Perry Cook, Celeste Betancur, Andrew Zhu Aday, Marise van Zyl, Terry Feng, Nick Shaheed, Eito Murakami, Ge Wang, Matt Wright, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Nils Tonnätt ~~~ Ge Wang Associate Professor Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) Department of Music (also Computer Science, by Courtesy) Stanford University https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/ ~ Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime! -- what we make, makes us -- https://artful.design/ ~~~