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ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Re: ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Do they supply standard audio demos (mp3, et al)? I see demos, but they all require installing the software first. It would make sense to give demos people can hear before deciding to install the software, but I don't see any.

This is a great idea and actually wouldn't be that hard to automatically generate from the example code that is provided.

Re: ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Do they supply standard audio demos (mp3, et al)? I see demos, but they all require installing the software first. It would make sense to give demos people can hear before deciding to install the software, but I don't see any.

This is a great idea and actually wouldn't be that hard to automatically generate from the example code that is provided.

Ideally the language (or atleast the sound format produced) should be runnable in javascript in the browser. Or maybe it has no intermediary sound format?

Re: ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Ha, great to see ChucK on here again! I'm one of the early developers of ChucK along with its creators, Ge Wang and Perry Cook. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.

I have been waiting for the audio equivalent to svg for pictures for an eternity now, why has nobody made a synth sound addition to midi?

Re: ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great idea and actually wouldn't be that hard to automatically generate from the example code that is provided.

Ideally the language (or atleast the sound format produced) should be runnable in javascript in the browser. Or maybe it has no intermediary sound format?

The output is just a raw stream of digital audio- the engine itself is implemented in C/C++, but there is an effort underway to port this to Web using emscripten.

Re: ChucK: Strongly-Timed, Concurrent, and On-the-Fly Music Programming Language

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Ha, great to see ChucK on here again! I'm one of the early developers of ChucK along with its creators, Ge Wang and Perry Cook. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.

I have been waiting for the audio equivalent to svg for pictures for an eternity now, why has nobody made a synth sound addition to midi?

That sounds like a neat idea. Reminds me on SoundFont.

But isn't Midi the equivalent to SVG, Wave the equivalent to BMP, Flac to PNG and MP3 the one to JPEG?

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