Hey Forrest,

The issue you're having with your float array is that 'float samples[];' is only declaring a null reference to an array. If you want it to refer to an actual array, you need to specify a length (e.g. float samples[ s.samples() ];)

ChucK arrays can also be resized (which I only found out recently! (:  ), so you can also do this, for example:

float foo[0];
foo.size(4);
<<< foo[0], foo[1], foo[2], foo[3] >>>;

~Jack


On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:43 PM Forrest Curo <treegestalt@gmail.com> wrote:
Um. that works.
So does this:
SndBuf s => blackhole;
"/home/forrest/chuck/examples/basic/om.wav" => s.read;
float samples;
0 => int i;
while (s.pos() < s.samples())  {
    <<< s.last() >>>;
    s.pos() => i;
    (s.valueAt(i)) => samples;
    <<< samples >>>;
    samp => now;
}

I was having trouble trying to read a sndBuf like an array, or put its contents into an array.
Maybe I was reading numbers off the end of the file. Declaring
'float samples[]; '
and doing
's.valueAt(i) => samples[i];'

got me a 'Null pointer' error.

Stumbling over syntax, I guess. Thanks for help!

On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 10:54 AM Perry Cook <prc@cs.princeton.edu> wrote:
This is truly odd.  I don’t have easy means to test it.   I don’t
know why it wouldbe broken dependent on the dac, however.

For fun you might try something like this, just to verify that the
valueAt() function is what’s busted.

SndBuf s => blackhole; 
“Fred.wav” => s.read;

while (s.pos() < s.samples())  {
    <<< s.last() >>>;
    samp => now;
}

PRC

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> Using chuck linux-jack this gives me reasonable numbers between -1 and 1.
> Using chuck linux-alsa I'm able to play the file I've read into sndBuf; but
> trying to copy it via .valueAt gives absurdly high ["out of range"] numbers
> at each point. [It can be a different high number different times I run
> chuck, but the number it is turns up at every point I sample.]
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> Is there a fix for this? Aside from using jack on a computer where it
> befnurgles the midi?
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