[chuck-users] STK Modulate -- does it work?

[Chris McDaniel]

What you suggested works wonderfully and I've been happily immersed in
sticking the .last() of anything I can think of into anywhere it fits.

Thanks Kassen!

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 6:50 PM, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 2008/7/2 Chris McDaniel <ixemul at gmail.com>:
>
>> That was fast!  I actually tried that but without the s.sync -- hadn't
>> really noticed that in the docs but it definitely opens some doors :-)
>>
>
> I believe the docs may have assumed words for traditional synthesis
> techniques were common knowledge for potential STK users but this probably
> doesn't hold for ChucK, seeing as people are geting into ChucK (and should
> be able to!) without first getting into traditional synths.
>
> I agree that "modulate" could be documented a little more clearly, for
> example by referring to a file in the "examples" dir and creating such a
> file if there is none already. If we don't tell people it needs fairly high
> amounts of gain before doing modulation in a audible way they might be
> disappointed.
>
>>
>> Thanks very much for clearing it up for me
>
>
> You're quite welcome. Thanks for making me try it once; I never had before
> but I like it. That was two minutes well spend.
>
>
>>
>>
>> So I have one other question -- can this be used with with STK instruments
>> that (don't appear to) have a sync member?
>>
>>
> Well, I think that modulation inputs for Ugens are typical for ChucK Ugens
> (particularly osc's) and not for STK ones. If we'd go in that direction I
> think we may need to look at a more elaborate syntax for more elaborate
> modulation. For example; teh FM we were using in our example isn't actually
> a form of "sync" at all. You could imagine using both sync and FM on the
> same oscilator but ChucK won't (currently?) allow this. Another question is
> that I'm not sure all STK instruments are designed in a way conductive to
> continuous modulations (I might be wrong there).
>
> What you can still do is call the .last() function of your Modulate Ugen
> which will get you a float. If you'd add that to a float representing the
> desired frequency to modulate around and write the result to the .freq()
> member of a STK Ugen every few ms (or samp) you would get something like our
> SinOsc example.
>
> I sugest you try that and shout if you run into issues.
>
> Yours,
> Kas.
>
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