[chuck-users] recording audio input under ChucK control

[Graham Coleman]

Rob,

WvOut class should be what you are looking for...

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/program/ugen_full.html#WvOut

Graham

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Robert Poor <rdpoor at gmail.com> wrote:

> fellow chukka's:
>
> I have not yet found an obvious way to record audio input under ChucK
> control.  The SndBuf.write() method is documented as "not yet implemented",
> and test code appears to confirm that it isn't implemented.
>
> I want to use ChucK to record snippets during a live performance using MIDI
> input to control when the recording starts, then use ChucK to play back
> processed snippets.  I *really* don't want to be switching apps (more
> specifically -- I don't want to be fiddling on a Mac keyboard), so I need
> Chuck to control it all.
>
> So my gambit -- yet to be tested -- is to use ChucK to spawn a command line
> function to do the recording, such as:
>
>  def void recordSnippet(string toFilename) {
>    system ("sndrecord " + toFilename);
>  }
>
> ... where sndrecord is a command-line recorder (such as
> /Developer/Examples/CoreAudio/Services/AudioFileTools/afrecord).
>
> Questions, always questions:
>
> - Given my constrains (real-time recording must be controlled from a MIDI
> device, not from a Mac keyboard) is this a sensible approach?  How have
> other people managed this?
>
> - in the ChucK system() call, is there a way to attach to stdin / stdout of
> a spawned process?  In this particular case, I would like to send it a
> string to stdin of the spawned process to tell it when to stop recording.
>
> - Aside from the afrecord utility in Mac OS /Developer, are there other
> command-line recording apps that people use and like?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Rob
>
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