[chuck-users] STK shakers wrench rattling?

[Stephen Sinclair]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 12:28 AM, Kassen <signal.automatique at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, list!
>
> I'm having a bit of a problem with the wrench and guiro presets of Shakers;
> they won't rattle nicely. That is; they do for the first .noteOn() after the
> preset was set but after that the following noteOn's  merely make them
> click. I tried all parameters in lots of permutations, I also tried to
> understand the source (which has lots of exceptions for these two) but it's
> beyond me and some of the comments look scary ;¬).
>
> I'm suspecting this isn't proper behaviour; sometimes messing with the
> .energy() parameter will get them to make some sort of noise but no nice
> rattles.
>
> Could somebody please comment on this?

hm, I think with the STK demo you had to keep moving the energy slider
in the GUI to get the "rattle" to continue.  have you tried sending a
sort of ramp to the energe parameter?

Basically I think as long as the energy value keeps changing the
rattle will continue.

Shakers s => dac;
Phasor lfo => blackhole;

100 => lfo.freq;

10 => s.preset;
s.noteOn(1);

now + 3::second => time end;
while (now < end) {
    lfo.last()/10+0.5 => s.energy;
    1::ms => now;
}


As I've just discovered you can get some cool effects by using
different frequencies and waveforms for the LFO.

Steve