Chords in chuck

OYTIS · Joined: Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 2 Location: SPb

Hello, everyone! I'm trying to use chuck for some experiments and I think I missed something about the language. I just tried to make A minor chord:

Antimon · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:25 pm Post subject:

Hi and

Each UGen defaults to max volume, which is 1.0. When you put on several oscillators the resulting sound will clip digitally, which doesn't sound very pleasant.

Trying lowering the volume, example for s1:

OYTIS · Joined: Mar 13, 2011 Posts: 2 Location: SPb

Thanks, Stefan, it worked! For some reason the gain should be even lower when calling chuck from command line (I used miniaudicle first). It's a bit strange because this code

Antimon · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:59 pm Post subject:

Hm how do you call it from the command line? It sounds like you're starting two parallell processes...

Also, which ChucK version are you using? There was a bug previously that actually allowed you to go up to 2.0 on the output without clipping, but that should have been fixed by now. Or maybe it's hardware-dependant.

A single note on its own, even if it's clipped, will sound nice enough, just sharper than a pure sinewave. It's when you add notes with other frequencies than you get the harsh distortion effect, maybe that's what you're hearing?