Fwd: hotswapping UGens

21 Jan 2009

      Dear all,

I just noticed that I accidentally send this to the DEV list instead of the
users one. That was of course a mistake. I hope this didn't bother anyone,
I'll try to pay more attention on the future.

Sorry,
Kas.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kassen 
Date: 2009/1/21
Subject: hotswapping UGens
To: ChucK Developer Mailing List 

Fellow ChucKists,

Inspired by Scott's explanation of casting I thought I'd try a new trick
that may be quite interesting for livecoding.

first run this file;
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new UGen @=> Foo.instrument;
public class Foo
    {
    static UGen @instrument;
    spork ~attach();

    fun void attach()
        {
        while(1)
            {
            if(!instrument.isConnectedTo( dac )) instrument => dac;
            second => now;
            }
        }
    }

Foo foo;
new Sitar @=> foo.instrument;

//your melody goes here
while(second => now) 1 => (foo.instrument $ Sitar).noteOn;
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Then run this to hot-swap the UGen while the original code runs;

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new Shakers @=> Foo.instrument;
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Sadly this does need that "attach" function as assignment breaks the link to
the dac. I'm not sure I feel that's desirable behaviour but at least we can
now hotswap UGens without crashing. I don't think I succeeded in that
before.

Yours,
Kas.

Kassen

Stephen Sinclair

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