[chuck-users] blind user

[Robert Poor]

Interesting!

What attracted me to ChucK was the fact that it is NOT graphically oriented.
 Sure, OSC is fun in how you can attach unit generators by interconnecting
them graphically, but I find ChucK's text-based programming model is
ultimately much more expressive.

I like to think of ChucK as the computer musician's equivalent of grinding
your own pigments: it's more work, but you produce something that is more
identifiably your own.

- Rob

2010/9/1 Rich Caloggero <rjc at mit.edu>

>  What I wish I could do with Chuck, or any language really, is to have a
> system like I imagine PureData to be. From what I've heard, gui DSP
> languages can allow you to create software synthesizers, samplers, and other
> similar software, complete with gui control.  You can do the DSP in chuck,
> but being able to create a standalone thing that can be easily tweaked or
> whatever via gui would require lots of reinventing of the wheel.
>
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I think sighted people have a whole host of sound
> making technology at their fingertips. If they want to program everything
> from the ground up, they can use chuck and OSC and write a gui to control
> what they build in Chuck. Seems like there are other people, like me, who do
> not want to program all the dsp stuff; I'd just like to have software in
> which I can  load up my synth or effect or sampler and build weird sounds
> via gui in real time.  Sighted people can do this with lots of programs;
> just look at all the synthesizers that now come with protools, or Cakewalk's
> Sonar.  Some of these have been made somewhat accessible via screen reader
> specific scripts, but I've not seen anything even remotely accessible off
> the shelf.
>
> Sorry for rambling, but it seems all the pieces are there. Just need
> someone a lot smarter than me to put them together...
> -- Rich
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Robert Poor <rdpoor at gmail.com>
> *To:* ChucK Users Mailing List <chuck-users at lists.cs.princeton.edu>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 01, 2010 2:15 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [chuck-users] blind user
>
> For ChucK , I've always used emacs as my editor and a terminal window for
> performance.  I'm curious: why do people use MiniAudicle?  And for our blind
> community, what do you wish it would do that a straight text editor and
> terminal window doesn't do?
>
> - Rob
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 09:39, Rich Caloggero <rjc at mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> I am a blind user who has played around with chuck! Chuck is perfectly
>> accessible via command shell in either linux or windows. The language is
>> great and running programs is simple.
>>
>> The GUI environment, mini audical, is another matter. I was not able to
>> use it on Windows; have not tried on Mac or Linux.
>>
>> I wonder if a rewrite in java using Swing UI classes would be feassible.
>> This would probably give the most access, cross platform and with little
>> extra coding. You do need to use Swing though, otherwise the code to talk
>> with MSAA (microsoft Active Accessibility) will need to be written by hand,
>> which is probably a big pain!
>>
>> Write me off list at rjc at mit.edu
>> -- Rich
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: <tempjayren at gmail.com>
>> To: "chuck users" <chuck-users at lists.cs.princeton.edu>
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 5:32 AM
>> Subject: [chuck-users] blind user
>>
>>
>>
>>  Would like to know if there are any other blind users of chuck besides
>>> myself and perhaps talk to them offlist so as to not spam the list
>>> needlessly.
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