[chuck-users] "playing" chuck

[Drew Jaworski]

Josh Lawrence wrote:
> On 5/30/07, Stephen Sinclair <radarsat1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> i'm personally more into beat-oriented electronic music, so i imagine
>> perhaps having a bank of samples at my disposal for messing with might
>> be helpful.
>>     
>
> glad you brought that up - I was going to scour the manual for this,
> but since you mentioned it...does chuck have any sort of mechanism for
> dealing with .wav files?  specifically, playing samples?  just point
> me in the right direction...
>
>   
Definitely check out the examples/hanoi++.ck example. It really helped 
me figure out how to deal with .wav files in the ChucK manner. My 
complaint is that it took a while to figure out what exactly was going 
on, since it isn't straightforward like "load a file, tell it to play"; 
it's "load a stream, constantly play samples until the stream ends, and 
set the position to 0 to restart it".

Basically, my tactic when using a bank of samples is to now load them, 
set them all to the end of the files (so they don't play immediately 
upon loading), and when I want them to play, I just set the position to 
0. I guess it does offer more flexibility in certain circumstances, but 
why isn't there (or /is/ there?) a more straightforward way to play a 
.wav file like a simple sampler (load, play)?

Sorry for the jumbled thoughts, but I just woke up. :D

-Drew