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kijjaz
Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 765 Location: bangkok, thailand
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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 2:28 am Post subject:
Me moving from other languages/system to SC |
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Hello everyone. Thank you for this wonderful place.
I still haven't checked out most of the topics here in supercollider forum, but will try to do as soon as possible.
I'm new in SC now, I've been working more on studio music production, performance, audio/midi sequencers, and some other audio programming languages.
(Firstly, Csound... I love it and I've stopped using it hahahhah.. I'm just too tired, but I'm very inspired by Csoound,
ChucK programming, which really energized me a lot.
Puredata and the Dataflow community also..)
I'm feeling that SC is the language I'm looking for.
It's my first time programming in a more object-oriented and functional environment also.
It's really starting changes my way of thinking about how to program.
Now I'm practicing more on the way to manipulate basic things: simple oscillators, connecting signals, data structure.
I hope I'll be able to use it for sound design, music production, and live performance / installation soon.
I've been introducing ChucK and Puredata in Thailand's music and opensource scene,
I hope I can expand this group more with SC too.
It's nice to have this community.
I'll try to report anything in here although can be very newbie issues.
Take care all. |
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dewdrop_world
Joined: Aug 28, 2006 Posts: 858 Location: Guangzhou, China
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Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 6:55 am Post subject:
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My advice: Even though a lot of the examples use Routines or Tasks to demonstrate sequencing, start fiddling around with Patterns (esp. Pbind) sooner rather than later. The Streams-Patterns-Events helpfiles tell you that if you skip ahead to the cool stuff, you won't understand what's underneath, but I'm starting to feel like that shouldn't stop you. Start exploring the framework and when something doesn't make sense, it's always possible to step back and grasp more of the implementation.
The kind of imperative code you would write in Routines or Tasks is closer to ChucK in some ways, but it means learning a lot of relatively low-level implementation details (especially messaging latency) that are confusing in early stages. Patterns are more functional, handle those details automatically, and, for basic uses, they are handsomely concise.
e.g., C major scale:
Code: | Pbind(
\degree, Pseries(0, 1, 8),
\dur, 0.25
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I'm waiting until I get home from China next week to propose a major rewrite of the pattern help...
James _________________ ddw online: http://www.dewdrop-world.net
sc3 online: http://supercollider.sourceforge.net |
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kijjaz
Joined: Sep 20, 2004 Posts: 765 Location: bangkok, thailand
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Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:37 am Post subject:
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Oh thank you. I'll check that out.
Yes, I really wanna learn more about how to think in functional / OOP style.
Learning SC is a good start for that because i'm having fun now hhehee. |
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