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chuck text editor
by fisher 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

i've just started developing a text editor for chuck, saves a lot of command line typing and makes it easier to manage tracks. it's currently only for xp but linux and apple support is on it's way. as are all the missing features - it's stil a useful tool as is, bugs n' all. more info here: http://sirconical.co.uk/hippocamp/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4180 regards, jon fisher

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miniAudicle version 0.1.0.0 (alpha) released for OSX
by Spencer Salazar 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hello, miniAudicle-0.1.0.0 (alpha) is now available: (currently OSX only; windows/linux versions coming soon) http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/miniAudicle/ miniAudicle is an integrated development environment designed for ChucK. It features integrated editing, adding, replacing, and removal of ChucK code. It includes an integrated ChucK virtual machine and a graphical monitor of the virtual machine and its output. Additionally, basic support for generation of interactive graphical controls within ChucK programs is provided. It can be used as a standalone development/runtime/on-the-fly programming environment for chuck, or in conjunction with the command line 'chuck' (via OTF commands). This is the initial release of miniAudicle. Expect spectacular crashes (as usual), interesting bugs, etc. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Please let us know of any issues, and HappY ChucKing! merry christmas/happy holidays, chuck team

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version 1.2.0.4 released (with manual)
by Ge Wang 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Dear All, chuck-1.2.0.4 (dracula) is now available: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ (may need to reload page to see update) The ChucK Manual is released! It is the work of Adam Tindale and others - great effort and results! It contains the entirety of the online documentation and additional tutorials from Adam, who will continue to coordinate efforts to augment and maintain the manual. The manual can be found as pdf file in the doc/ folder of the distribution and also online. Feedback is welcome as always (email Adam, me, or chuck-users). Also, thanks to those who provided suggestions and corrections on the preliminary version. We have also incorporated the changes from the new RtAudio and RtMidi (thanks Gary Scavone), which includes greatly improved latency/stability under Windows (thanks to Robin Davies). Also new: band-limited ugens (Blit, BlitSaw, BlitSquare) again thanks to Robin Davies, ability to seed rand, bug fixes (we think), and stuff. See below for more details. Please let us know of any issues, and HappY ChucKing! Best, chuck team 1.2.0.4 --- - (added) The ChucK Manual (pdf) fantastic work by Adam Tindale and other documentors see doc/ChucK_manual.pdf - (added) Envelope.duration( dur ), Envelope.duration() - (added) Envelope.keyOn(), Envelope.keyOff(); - (added) PitShift.mix( float ), PitShift.mix() (originally effectMix) - (added) std.srand( int ) : seed random number generator - (added) update to RtAudio 3.2.0 -> much lower latency: Window DS (thanks to Gary Scavone and Robin Davies) - (added) update to RtMidi 1.0.4 -> improved midi: linux ALSA (thanks to Gary Scavone and Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas) - (added) bandlimited ugens: Blit, BlitSaw, BlitSquare (thanks to Robin Davies for implementation, Gary Scavone for putting them in STK) - (added) examples/basic/foo.ck foo2.ck tick.ck tick2.ck (foo2 shows using Blit, tick.ck is a simple counter) - (added) examples/class/dinky.ck try.ck (creating and using class to make instruments) - (fixed) sndbuf.read now closes file handle and sets curf - (fixed) default bufsize=256 under OSX and 512 under all other - (fixed) chuck + foof garbled error message - (fixed) chuck.lex compatibility under some linux - (fixed) waiting on null event: no longer crashes VM - (fixed) function arguments: no longer allow reference to primitive types - (fixed) function: correctly select overloaded functions w/ implicit cast - (fixed) std.atoi() std.atof(): no longer crash on null string - (fixed) std.fabs(): now works correctly - (fixed) basic/moe.ck larry.ck currly.ck use fabs - (fixed) missing base class virtual destructors; FreeBSD/g++ compatibility (thanks rasmus) - (fixed) most -Wall warnings - (fixed) CK_LOG_SYSTEM_ERROR now CK_LOG_CORE

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version 1.2.0.3 released
by Ge Wang 23 Oct '05

23 Oct '05

Dear All, chuck-1.2.0.3 (dracula) is now available. Once again, we have made some small (but potentially critical) language and API changes (very sorry). The experimental 'loop' keyword has been renamed to 'repeat', std.abs() now deals with int (instead of float) and std.fabs() uses floats. Additionally, a sizable bug in instantiating arrays of null object references have been fixed (we hope), and /* block comments */ are now supported. See below for more details. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ (may need to reload page to see update) Please let us know of any issues, and as always, HappY ChucKing! Best, chuck team --- 1.2.0.3 (API changes again) (syntax change - 'loop' -> 'repeat') - loop( ... ) construct (see 1.2.0.2) changed to repeat( ... ) - usage and semantics same as before - this is also an experimental language feature (let us know if it's good or bad) - float std.abs( float ) changed -> int std.abs( int ) - use std.fabs( ... ) for floating point absolute value - (added) /* block comments */ - no nesting allowed - closing '*/' not necessary if commenting out rest of the file - (fixed) arrays of null object references correctly allocated : Event @ events[128]; - (fixed) DEFAULT sndbuf rate now set correctly to interpolate for files outside of chuck sample rate (no longer have to explicit do 1 => buf.rate) - (fixed) examples/midi/polyfony*.ck no longer creates 128 unnecessary events... - (changed) examples/stk/wurley.ck -> examples/stk/wurley2.ck - (changed) examples/stk/wurley.ck (wacky version)

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Some early tests in new ChucK
by thor 18 Oct '05

18 Oct '05

Hi Chuck people Thanks for this latest release of ChucK! It looks promising. I've been testing it for an hour or so and I am very impresssed. Here are some tests I did for fun: // A SuperCollider patch that sends OSC messages to ChucK: // it uses the OSC_recv.ck program that's in the examples. n = NetAddr("127.0.0.1", 6449); // chuck listens here t = Task({ 16.do({ n.sendMsg("/sndbuf/buf/rate", rrand(0.8, 1.2)); 0.5.wait; }); }); t.start t.stop // here is another test: Run this in SuperCollider (and cd to your ChucK examples folder): "cd /Applications/ChucK/examples/; chuck otf_01.ck".unixCmd; "cd /Applications/ChucK/examples/; chuck otf_02.ck".unixCmd; "cd /Applications/ChucK/examples/; chuck otf_03.ck".unixCmd; It all starts as expected. However I'd like to get the PID returned so I could kill the (chuck) process when I like. Does anybody know how (or if) one can get the PID returned when you start a process in Unix? At the moment I can go to "top" and kill all chuck processes, but I cannot be sure if I am killing the base drum or the snare : ( It would be nice to be able to start ChucK programs from SC and control them through OSC and then stop them (from SC) when one wants. (I can do all of that now, except for the last bit) In the examples above (otf_01, otf_02 and otf_03).... is it possible to start them so they all run in sync? If I start them all from different terminal windows I get this error message: thm:/Applications/ChucK/examples thm$ chuck otf_04.ck [chuck]: cannot bind to tcp port 8888... Am I doing something wrong? Should I not be starting up those different programs in new terminal windows? How could I sync them? (I should RTFM but I am a bit busy right now) ChucK rocks! thor

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version 1.2.0.2 released
by Ge Wang 17 Oct '05

17 Oct '05

Dear All, chuck-1.2.0.2 (dracula) is now available. Changes include class and member functions renaming for OSC objects (see below), stability and performance improvements for OSC, ability to open multiple OscRecv objects on a single port, experimental control construct 'loop', events fire with 0-sample delay instead of 1-sample, new/updated examples, and many various bug fixes (hopefully). http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ (may need to reload page to see update) Please let us know of any issues. HappY ChucKing! Best, chuck team --- 1.2.0.2 (sorry for the API changes) - (API change) OSC_Send class name changed to 'OscSend' (also): .startMesg(...) name changed to startMsg(...) - (API change) OSC_Recv class name changed to 'OscRecv' - (API change) OSC_Addr class name changed to 'OscEvent' (also): .hasMesg() name changed to .hasMsg() (also): .nextMesg() name changed to .nextMsg() - (API change) STK Shakers.freq now expect Hz instead of MIDI number - (moved) examples/event/opensound*.ck moved to examples/osc/OSC*.ck (see OSC_send.ck and OSC_recv.ck for examples on OpenSoundControl) - (moved) examples/event/polyfony*.ck to examples/midi/ - (added) 'loop(...){ }' control structure : example: loop( 8 ) { ... } // executes body 8 times example: loop( foo ) { ... } // executes body foo times (foo is evaluated exactly once entering the loop, the value at that time is used as a constant to control loop iteration - even if foo is changed in the loop body.) - supports break and continue - important: one fundamantal difference between the loop semantic and for/while/until semantic is that the argument expression 'exp' in loop( exp ) is evaluated exactly once when the loop is first entered. - (added) MidiIn and MidiOut member functions: .good() : whether the thing is good to go (int) .num() : the device number (int) .name() : the device name (string) .printerr( int ) : whether to auto print errors (default YES) - (added) --version command line flag (Graham) - (changed) chuck --status now prints shreds sorted by id (previously it was the current shreduling order + blocked) - (changed) a udp port may now be shared by many OSC_Recv (phil) : the incoming messages are broadcast to all - (changed) address/type string in OSC: comma now optional (phil) - (fixed) events are now 0-sample synchronous (instead of 1) - (fixed) startup audio stability for --callback mode - (fixed) incorrect 'continue' behavior in for loops - (fixed) improved OSC stability (phil) - (fixed) OSC shreduling sanity check failed now resolved - (fixed) math.round for negative numbers (win32) - (fixed) std.mtof and std.ftom now internally double precision - (fixed) removed extra console output in STK Flute - (fixed) multiple delete/assertion failure on type rollback - (fixed) chuck --kill now closes WvOut and MidiRW file handles - (added) examples/midi/gomidi.ck : very useful sometimes - (added) examples/midi/gomidi2.ck - (added) examples/basic/rec-auto.ck (rec2.ck back in action) - (added) examples/basic/fmsynth.ck (from v1) - (added) examples/sitar.ck - (fixed) examples/stk/*-o-matic.ck now uses array

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version 1.2.0.1 released
by Ge Wang 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Dear All, chuck-1.2.0.1 (dracula) is now available, with new callback functionality for real-time audio (potentially better for linux and os x), and several bug fixes: crash when using --replace averted, member resolution in inherited classes corrected, and string comparison is less broken, among others. Much thanks to Robin Davies, Manfred Brockhaus, Leonard "paniq" Ritter, and others for their help. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ (may need to reload page to see update) Please let us know of any issues. HappY ChucKing! Best, chuck team --- 1.2.0.1 - (added) full callback capability for real-time audio - blocking functionality still available - select via flags: --blocking and --callback - improves latency and stability, especially on linux - use --callback (default) for low latency / small buffer size - use --blocking for higher throughput (sometimes) - (fixed) crash when doing on-the-fly 'replace' example: chuck --replace 0 foo.ck - (fixed) implicit cast is now correct when sporking (thanks to Manfred Brockhaus) - (fixed) nested class definitions can have same name as outer class - (fixed) nested class bug in scan1 (thanks to Robin Davies) - (fixed) variable resolution in parent class now visible (thanks to Robin Davies) - (fixed) variable resolution ordering - local, class, parent, global (thanks to Robin Davies) - (fixed) emitter now asserts inheritance instead of equality (thanks to Robin Davies) - (fixed) string comparison ==, != - (added) string operations <, <=, >, >= - (fixed) examples code reformatted, cleaned, and commented - (fixed) OSC event function now correctly named ("event") - (fixed) removed debug output in OSC

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SuperCollider vs ChucK
by Nick Collins 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Raging Code; The Battle of Barcelona Ge "ChucK" Wang vs Nick "nil" Collins live coding bout 13 rounds of hard typing action till Code Out For the disputed World Programming Federation Fingerweight Belt (Turingsberry rules apply) off-ICMC 2005 Weds 7th September, 23:15-23:45, Metrònom Foundation, Barcelona http://www.icmc2005.org/off/ Supported by TOPLAP, www.toplap.org, 'big up arrow the live code massive' (Hey Ge, you want to mail sc-users now?)

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Re: Dracula!
by Kristjan Varnik 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello Team Chuck! > > chuck-1.2.0.0 is released. (Sorry.) This is the "v2" major release. > Additions include arrays, objects and classes, events, and more. A > full list of new and updated features can be found at the end of this > email. > > Congrats on finishing up your release. Thank you. Arrays. Stereo. Ugens... This is really beautiful! -- Kristjan Varnik ................................................. http://www.ncob.net - New Conventions of Behavior Experimental Audio Project and Sample Library.... .................................................

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spork ~ chuck-users ( new mailing_list + more )
by Ge Wang 25 Aug '05

25 Aug '05

Dear All, Along with the new release, we have made a new mailing list (chuck-users), intended for specific questions and discussions about using chuck. This list (chuck) will (soon) become a moderated, low-traffic mailing list intended for updates, announcements, tutorials, and low-bandwidth discussions. Hopefully the folks that are interested in chuck can remain on (chuck) without being potentially spammed too much, and those that have specific questions can fire away on (chuck-users) with a clean conscience! Additionally, we have been graciously given permission to abuse an entity called 'soup kitchen'. It is the state-of-the-art in anti-social networking. It contains many nice features (all conversations are by default world-readable, optional email notification of new replies to topics, and is rather elegant) that may be to useful as a semi-realtime semi-anonymous forum. The author, Visnu Pitiyanuvath, will work with us to further enhance the site to make it more useful and fun. Links to all the lists and soup kitchen can be found here: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/community.html Join, if you like. Have fun! Best, ChucK Team

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