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improved performance patch for OS X + XP
by Ge Wang 16 Feb '05

16 Feb '05

Dear All, There is a new incremental version out (1.1.5.5) which: 1) fixes a bug under XP where chuck --loop uses 100% cpu (now it uses 0-5%) 2) improves stability under Mac OS X It is available now: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/release/ Best, Ge!

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Re: Re: Audicle presentation award / video (oliver oli)
by Jeffrey Treviño 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

> > From: oliver oli <smoerk(a)gmail.com> > Date: February 6, 2005 3:04:00 PM PST > To: "Mailing list for programming language 'ChucK'" > <chuck(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > Subject: Re: [chuck] Audicle presentation award / video > Reply-To: Mailing list for programming language 'ChucK' > <chuck(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu> > > > I don't know much about Audicle, I only watched the video. It's mainly > a visualization of what is going on inside of ChucK. How many shreds > are running and when they get activated, etc... There is also an > editor which some nifty user interface, which I guess is based on > OpenGL, too. From the performance standpoint, I can say that the Audicle is much more than a fancy editor / visualization. We have to keep in mind that this language aims to facilitate on-the-fly programming. The Audicle interface substantially changes how a performer might interact with Chuck in realtime, because it fundamentally changes the characteristics of the performance interface. > > But this stuff is completely optional, you can also do everything with > plain chuck and an editor of your choice. Except that you can do it more quickly and in different ways using Audicle. Plus our plain editors are way less interesting to audience members than are fancy visualizations. > I don't think it makes any sense to try to make Audicle more screen > reader friendly, because it's mainly 2D and 3D visualization. I guess > it's possible to magnify everything in Audicle as it's based on > OpenGL. > > But maybe it's possible to make the command line interface of chuck > more accessible? Have you tried to run chuck? Is there anything which > could be improved for a screen reader...? As a composer/performer, I personally prefer virtual instrument GUIs of some kind (even if they're dynamically defined) over command line interfaces for performance. We need to get away from the suspicion that your new music laptop performer is in fact checking his e-mailing during the performance you're watching, and projecting visualizations--especially visualizations like this that are integrated with the code editor and are apparently effecting the way in which the performer makes musical decisions--has a lot of potential as a cure. --Jeff Treviño, Stanford University Computer Center for Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) > > > > Rich Caloggero wrote: >> Somewhat dumb question here -- what exactly is >> Audicle ? I assume its some kind of GUI, with Chuck on the back end >> doing >> the heavy lifting. My question is really - is it a win32 app or will >> it only >> run on X-windows. I'm a blind musician and have always wanted an >> accessible >> synthesizer, something I can actually tweak fairly easily. Most (all) >> stand-alone boxes have incredibly difficult interfaces which can only >> be >> operated by sighted people. Software solutions are worse - completely >> inaccessible GUI. Might there be any hope for audicle in this sense? >> I'm >> certainly no expert in win32 programming or GUI building in general, >> but if >> Cakewalk/Sonar can be made reasonably accessible, then why not >> audicle? >> For good models of how to create accessible interfaces, ones which can >> expose their state to adaptive tech. like screen readers and >> magnification >> software, look at the gnome project, and Java Swing, both of which are >> attempting to do this. >> -- Rich Caloggero, MIT Adaptive Tech. for Info. and Computing > > > > _______________________________________________ > chuck mailing list > chuck(a)lists.cs.princeton.edu > https://lists.cs.princeton.edu/mailman/listinfo/chuck

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Audicle presentation award / video
by Ge Wang 06 Feb '05

06 Feb '05

Dear All, We are happy to announce that the Audicle has won the 2004 ICMA Best Presentation Award, as voted by attendees of the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), in Miami. The video of the presentation is now available for bandwidth and storage abuse (they are pretty big) - if you want to take a glimpse at the audicle: http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/listen/ big: audicle_icmc2004_sm.mov (130 megs) bigger: audicle_icmc2004.mov (500 megs!!!) Thanks to Ajay Kapur + Adam Tindale for filming the thing, and for everyone's support! Best, Perry, Phil, Ananya, Ge

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Windows XP crash
by Gary Williams 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

While testing my ModalBar program, ChucK crashed. I'm enclosing the program (mb419.ck) and the tech error text Windows produced (70d5_appcompat.txt). System Windows XP (with SP2) on a Sony Vaio laptop. Please let me know if you need anything else. --Gary ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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using multiple dac's in one shred?
by Gary Williams 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

I was thinking about multiple voice chords and I see dac described in the Programming Guide as [ugen] dac * digital/analog converter * abstraction for underlying audio output device so I thought that it could be the target of multiple ugen's in one shred, and tried it here http://garywilliams.org/chuck/bpmulti2.ck It seems to work. So I used it as the basis of an article on http://b-chuck blogspot.com/. But I notice that if I use multiple instances of this chuck bpmulti2.ck bpmulti2.ck it generates interference. Is multiple dac usage legal (and proper)? And does anyone know why multiple instances generate interference? --Gary Williams ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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question about types
by Gary Williams 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

I've been fiddling with the ModalBar and TubeBell STK functions, and I wrote a subroutine that took a TubeBell. as a parameter: fun int presets( TubeBell bell ) { ... } but accidentally called it with a param that was a ModalBar. This did not gen a type error and I got silence until I added a param that doesn't exist in a TubeBell. Then ChucK complained that it couldn't find TubeBell strikePosition. Howcum? (i.e., why no typing complaint? It took me an hour to find out why I was getting silence...) -- Gary ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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a plea for an exit() verb, and an include mechanism
by Gary Williams 23 Jan '05

23 Jan '05

As I noted on the features request page on the wiki, I think we need an exit() function. I noticed in my scalefunction.ck example on b-chuck, it would have been good to issue an error message and exit in the bad-parameter value case -- but I don't see exit() in the programmers guide. Also, and include verb to allow inclusion of function modules and header files would be helpful. (Similar to the #include in C...) --Gary ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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Mikael Johansson joins Beginning Chuck blog
by Gary Williams 22 Jan '05

22 Jan '05

Today Mikael Johansson accepted my invitation to join the Beginning ChucK blog as a co-contributor. There's plenty of room for anyone else who may want to contribute -- please let me know. My email's down there at the bottom of this message. --Gary ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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A new ChucK blog -- Beginning ChucK -- and an excercise on the A scale
by Gary Williams 21 Jan '05

21 Jan '05

I know as a programmer and former tech writer that I often learn more when I try to write about it, so I decided that in learning ChucK I would write about learning it. So today I started a blog, <a href=http://b-chuck blogspot.com/ target=bchuck>Beginning ChucK -- http://b-chuck.blogspot com/</a>. The first real piece I did is an exercise in writing scales -- in this case a simple A scale exercise. Please let me know what you think. I'd appreciate any suggestions. --Gary ---- Chess: http://chessnut.net/ Homepage: http://garywilliams.org/ Blog: http://tfs_reluctant.blogspot.com/ ChucK Blog: http://b-chuck.blogspot.com/ Resume: http://garywilliams.org/resume.htm Store: http://www.cafeshops.com/tfsreluctant/ Phone: (607) 775-0408 Permanent email: gwms(a)corninglink.com

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Serial or USB access?
by Lance Boyle 19 Jan '05

19 Jan '05

Hi. First post to this list. Following up on mention of ChucK a few days ago on music-dsp. Using ChuckK, how would one access a headtracker or mouse from either a serial port (via Keyspan serial-USB adapter) or USB using OS X? Jerry

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