Re: [microsound] Chuck

[Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not confused by Chuck's timing process.. I could just as easily
write something similar in Perl ..

while ($now < $later) { $now++;}

I just thought that was funny..

I have investigated PD as well.. I would proabbaly try it again before
paying for MAX but getting under the hood does seem alot more daunting
than it's interface would  allow you to think.

Adrian

--- David Powers <cyborgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not any amazing programmer, but ChucK was very easy to get
> started
> in; there are a LOT of examples. You should be able to understand
> what
> you need, simply by modifying one of the included scripts. The key to
> Chuck is indeed the timing part, which isn't as confusing as you
> thing
> if you read the examples and the manual... "now" is a chuck keyword,
> but "later" in the example, would be a user defined variable, say 1
> second, so after one second, (now < later) would be false and the
> loop
> would end.
> 
> You don't have to process realtime with chuck, and I'm assuming
> offline processing would be much faster with chuck than with Perl.
> 
> I use Pure Data a lot now, which is the open source version of Max.
> However, the learning curve was STEEP, steeper than a normal
> programming language, in my opinion. Took about a year I guess,
> before
> the paradigm really seemed natural for doing programming type tasks
> and not just hooking up audio streams.
> 
> ~David
> 
> On 9/26/06, Xdugef <info@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >Have you considered ChucK? It might be very well suited to what
> you
> > >are doing...
> > >~David
> >
> >
> > Chuck looks very interesting.. http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
> >
> > The main reason I abandoned Csound back in the day is because I was
> > trying to mainly work with samples and I could not figure out how
> to
> > avoid loud annoying clicks.
> >
> > In my more recent efforts one goal was to avoid any kind of
> learning
> > curve although by this point in time Chuck looks pretty straight
> > forward to me.
> >
> > Although some of the code seems to impose some philosophical
> > challenges..
> >
> > "while( now < later )"
> >
> > What the f...??? time is just a loop.. time is just a loop.. etc
> etc
> > etc
> >
> >
> > My script at this point is extremely portable assuming your sound
> input
> > is in text file format ..hehe
> >
> > Also since I am avoiding being a laptop performer (no offense to
> anyone
> > who is..simply my preference) I don't really care if my perl script
> is
> > live or not. In some perverse way I like that it is anything but
> > realtime.. it's an interesting limitation especially since I am
> > performing live more than ever.
> >
> > I have enough time into my Perl script that I will of course move
> > forward and try to finish it's second manifestation and will
> probably
> > proceed to add the wav capabilities.
> >
> > Pros of chuck are: It's free, It appears very capable, It's
> available
> > on all the major platforms, appears relatively easy.
> >
> > I have toyed with the idea of getting back into MAX but now I may
> have
> > too.. thanks
> >
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> >
> >
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