ChucK is a music programming language (and compiler/synthesizer) written by a professor (Perry Cook) and his students at Princeton University. I'm learning how to use it; I thought that writing about how to use it would help...
Subject: [chuck] improved performance patch for OS X + XP
1) fixes a bug under XP where chuck --loop uses 100% cpu
(now it uses 0-5%)
2) improves stability under Mac OS X
posted by Gary Williams at 9:37 PM
To look at the example programs here (in a new window) just click the link; to download, right-click and Save...
Ascale.ck
Simple exercise on the A scale.
scales.ck
Mikael Johansson's scale exercise, including chromatic note variables and an exercise on mandolin.
scalefunction.ck
Gary Williams' function to convert an arbitrary note/octave code to frequency (also includes Mikael's note variables).
test_note_freq.ck
Test driver for Gary's scalefunction, float note_freq( float note, float octave );
chromatic.ck
Full chromatic exercise using the std.mtof() function to run the MIDI notes from 0 to 127 with a sine oscillator.
tubebellChromatic.ck
Similar to chromatic.ck but using the STK TubeBell function, modified from the Replicant examples.
SuperLocrianBells.ck
Similar to the tubebellChromatic.ck program, this one illustrates a scale function, note_to_midi()
