[chuck-users] how is this "on the fly"?

[AlgoMantra]

See guys, I wouldn't raise a hellcry without having tinkered
enough with what was available on the internet. Far too many
people have suggested that I use PySndObj without having
done any kind of realtime audio analysis on it themselves.
Allow me to restate my objective. I want "to read the sound of a live flute
off the audio port in realtime, and analyse it using Python". Now...

This is a reply to me from one of the main PySndObj developers:

thinking a little more about this, I think there is no pitch  tracker
there (I need to add one...). So you can try csound:

See that? at least he understood my question somewhat.
Now here's a response from the gentleman at Pymedia:

Can you please check voice_recorder_player.py or voice_recorder.py
from examples tar ball ?May be it will resolve most of the issues.

He is answering a completely different question! I'm talking about
intercepting data off a port, and he's talking of recording it. I had seen
the example he's talking about but it made no sense in the context.
And I was kinda lucky in that I know what a tarball is - most artists
who dabble in technology come from diverse background. ( I am one
of the 2 or 3 new media artists in India). So I find it odd that when
newbies
ask questions, developers answer very sweetly, but in code.

Perhaps the truth really is that adc => FFT => dac, which is so simple
for ChucK etc - has no analog in Python, and people are just too
ashamed to admit that they don't know how its done. To use Chuck to
do this, I will need to learn YET ANOTHER LANGUAGE called OSC
or something, which will talk to messages from Python (which are
messages originating in my phone coming via Bluetooth) so I can
pretty much give up on realtime.

I hate Python. Ugh, no! I love it, but I hate where I am with this
damn project.

*looks despondently at the wall picture of Lord Shiva,
who has a familiar serpent tied around his neck like a
scarf*


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On 9/17/07, robin.escalation <robin.escalation at acm.org> wrote:
>
> --- AlgoMantra <algomantra at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you prepare your files and code in advance and then just chuck
> > the
> > shreds in and out of the VM, it really is a a bit like sequencing,
> > rather
> > than livecoding. And if I change the code in the file, save it,
> > then the
> > effects don't appear live, do they?
>
> In my little free time that I am spending with ChucK I am trying to
> figure this out as well! The best I get is editing one file while
> another is playing. This feels more like batch programming than real
> time.
>
> > Maybe i'm missing something freakin obvious, but I'm so frustrated
> > having had to learn Csound, Chuck, SuperCollider and all sorts of
> > new languages just because Python did not provide me with a simple
> > audio processing module. All I wanted to do using Python was
> > analyse the sound
> > of a live flute playing and plot its frequency, and other
> > characteristics,
> > straight off the audio port.
>
> It is annoying that no-one has wrapped a decent library for Python.
> But haver you checked out my article on this topic? It could be that
> if you have simple needs PyMedia or one of the other mentioned tools
> might do.
>
> Surf:
>
> http://diagrammes-modernes.blogspot.com/2007/08/music-control-tools-python-based.html
>
> -- robin
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