[chuck-users] newbie questions

[Philip Davidson]

Howdy Dan,

Looking at source, i think what's happening is that the Chuck duration ( 
floating point, in samples) is being implicitly cast to the floating 
point argument ( .attackTime is registered as such ) that STK needs, but 
ASDR is expecting seconds.

durs can always be converted to the float units your function expects 
through division  ( t / 1::second ) but we should be performing this 
automagically by adding a properly typed function.

     func = make_new_mfun( "float", "attackTime", ADSR_ctrl_attackTime 
); //! attack time
     func->add_arg( "float", "value" );
     if( !type_engine_import_mfun( env, func ) ) goto error;



Daniel L Trueman (dtrueman at Princeton.EDU) wrote:
> ok, newbie chucker here, with dumb questions:
> 
> 1. is it true that the archives for this list are not searchable? i would be most delighted to avoid asking dumb questions by 
> searching the archives first.
> 
> 2. confused is me trying to set some STK time parameters. for instance:
> 
> //
> noise n => ADSR e => dac;
> 400::ms => dur t => e.attackTime;
> //
> 
> doesn't work, which is ok since i know:
> 
> //
> .4 => e.attackTime;
> //
> 
> does work, but it would make more sense to me to be able to send durs around consistently, especially when i see something 
> like this:
> 
> //
> noise n => Envelope e => dac;
> std.rand2f(10,500)::ms => dur t => e.duration;
> //
> 
> that works. now, things become more mysterious when i find that "duration" is not documented online as part of Envelope,  
> which makes me wonder if i'm missing something, and also wonder what other interesting things remain undocumented. is it 
> just that some of the STK ugens have been extended to take durs, but not all?
> 
> most joyfully attempting to chuck,
> dan
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