Chuck Programming

cavedave

Has anyone tries the programming language Chuck?

I tired it last night using Audicle as an IDE. It seems really good, easy to install and get working and simple enough while having a lot of power.

Just to prove this does count as experimental music here is the code for In C by Riley

cornbb

cavedave wrote: »

Has anyone tries the programming language Chuck?

I tired it last night using Audicle as an IDE. It seems really good, easy to install and get working and simple enough while having a lot of power.

Just to prove this does count as experimental music here is the code for In C by Riley

No i hadn't heard of it. Bookmarked though, thanks, I'll be sure to check it out. It looks friendly enough. I've used Csound and Max in the past (both of which are most definitely experimental and fun), currently working with JUCE (which was used to make Mackie's Traktion software) which isn't all that fun :pac:

Edit: I love the In C example! It just goes to show how algorithmic in nature the scores of many pieces of new music are...

cavedave

For Computer nerds here is In C in C

The coolest bit of Chuck code I have found so far is Reichs unclapping Music in a few lines of readable code
http://www.jesusgollonet.com/blog/2006/07/25/unclapping-music/

It is quite odd to hear the music and see how simple it is.

cornbb

cavedave wrote: »

For Computer nerds here is In C in C

The coolest bit of Chuck code I have found so far is Reichs unclapping Music in a few lines of readable code
http://www.jesusgollonet.com/blog/2006/07/25/unclapping-music/

It is quite odd to hear the music and see how simple it is.

Very cool, the syntax looks pretty easy (compared to Csound anyway). Do you know if its any good for generating MIDI sequences? Can it write data to a MIDI file? I should really read up on it myself and install it but I'm at work :pac: Will be sure to check it out later though.

cavedave

Do you know if its any good for generating MIDI sequences? Can it write data to a MIDI file?

Sorry I have only started playing around with it myself so I am not aware of all of its capabilities.
Chuck seems to be pretty midi friendly

ChucK contains built-in MIDI classes to allow for interaction with MIDI based software or devices.

Setun

Sorry if this sounds a bit noobish, but is there a way of using the app without having to build it and mess about in Terminal on OS?

cavedave

The way I got it working was
Download audicle from http://audicle.cs.princeton.edu/mini/
Run audicle and open up a file. Say open examples/basic/moe.ck
If you are on OSX you seem to need to start the virtual machine. Windows you seem not to need to.
Press "add sheet" and listen. Press "remove sheet" and change something in the code. Go back to start of this line
Go through this tutorial http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/learn/tutorial.html
And then this one http://www.iua.upf.es/~gcoleman/chuck/tutorial/tutorial.html

Hopefully this helps. If not can you shout the list back?

Setun

Thx that works great! Interesting program, cheers.