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DrumAliens
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 Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:32 am Post subject:
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I want to make use of ChucK for live coding. Not a problem so far. What I also want to be is record what I have done and possible edit/mix it later. So the plan is to make use of MIDI so I can then use any DAW any VST's for notes and effects.
So I won't be using ChucK to generate the instruments just the MIDI signals ... stands back for the tirade of abuse.
So what I want to be able to use a general file which will handle all of the MIDI and then use different files for each specific instrument.
... or do I have to have the MIDI handling in each of the instrument files.
Thanks
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I took a general pattern for sending MIDI that I've used and extracted it to a public class (midiInclude.ck) that you could include. I also made a little test program (midiIncTest.ck) and a main file for loading them all (midiIncTestMain.ck). Is this in the direction you want to go?
Here is the test code (I've even put some comments in there ;) ):
| Code: | 0 => int MIDI_OUT_DEVICE;
MidiOut midiOut;
if (!midiOut.open(MIDI_OUT_DEVICE)) {
<<< "Couldn't open midi out ", MIDI_OUT_DEVICE >>>;
} else {
<<< "Opened ", midiOut.name() >>>;
}
// some notes for testing
[0,5,8,2,6,10,4,8,10,5] @=> int notes[];
0 => int noteIndex;
fun int checkIndex(int index, int max) {
if (index >= max) {
return 0;
} else {
return index;
}
}
MidiKeyboard keyboard;
keyboard.init(midiOut, 0); // device, channel
while (true) {
// play three notes at a time, spread them a bit fancy-like
keyboard.playNote(60 + notes[noteIndex++], 50, 1::second);
checkIndex(noteIndex, notes.size()) => noteIndex;
100::ms => now;
keyboard.playNote(60 + notes[noteIndex++], 100, 900::ms);
checkIndex(noteIndex, notes.size()) => noteIndex;
100::ms => now;
keyboard.playNote(60 + notes[noteIndex++], 120, 800::ms);
checkIndex(noteIndex, notes.size()) => noteIndex;
900::ms => now;
}
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Note that I spork up a shred every time I play a note in midiInclude. This is needed to support chords - my first gut feeling was that it might be expensive to spork up loads of throwaway shreds like this, but it seems to work ok. You can solve it with a limited pool of shreds that are reused, but that solution quickly gets very complicated because there are a lot of concurrency stuff you need to take care of.
/Stefan
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| A general class for sending note events (key on + key off) in a controlled manner from a ChucK program. |
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| A test program for midiInclude.ck |
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| A main ChucK program for running midiIncTest.ck. |
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Oh yeah, you run this test by putting all three files in the same directory, and then doing:
| Code: | chuck midiIncTestMain.ck
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Many thanks. I am off work tommorrow (Monday) will give this a proper go then.
Thanks
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 3:50 am Post subject:
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Had a sneaky go and recorded MIDI notes.
Looking good so far. Thanks Antimon full report to follow
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DrumAliens
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Thanks Antimon fair amount of success/fun today.
Think I will just make use of two files midiInclude to do the main MIDI handling and the midiIncTest for develop coding. Still trying to work out whether to use the playNote option or go the keyOn/keyOff route.
Manage to link all of this up to Cuckos Reaper with a beatsliced drum track on one channel and synth on another.
Just need to tidy things and I'm off. |
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Nice to see that it was useful. 
Now you mention, maybe I've gotten the whole machine.add() thing for classes pattern wrong. You're right - you only need two files.
/Stefan
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:05 pm Post subject:
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| DrumAliens wrote: | | So I won't be using ChucK to generate the instruments just the MIDI signals ... stands back for the tirade of abuse. |
No tirades from me--most of the stuff I played around with using ChucK was for routing and processing midi data (no recording or playback, though).
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| Antimon wrote: | | I took a general pattern for sending MIDI that I've used and extracted it to a public class (midiInclude.ck) that you could include. I also made a little test program (midiIncTest.ck) and a main file for loading them all (midiIncTestMain.ck). Is this in the direction you want to go?/Stefan |
Thanks for posting the code, Stefan. If I ever get back into using ChucK, this is certainly something I want to check out!
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