Recording Sounds

 Recording Sounds: Always Great When You Start Thinking Like a Researcher

So, today I wanted to be able to record voices and other sounds using ChucK. I did not really want to record ChucK compositions because I had done that before, but I wanted to be able to use an external microphone, or just an inbuilt microphone to make the recordings. I knew I had to use adc, but to what was a supposed to chuck it to? After some deep thinking, I thought I should chuck it to dac, but then how would it record the sound? I then thought doing the following: adc => SinOsc s => dac. I gave the

ChucK reactions and cool discoveries

It has been really great learning to use ChucK, and making cool discoveries with each new day before me. ChucK to me is not a challenging language, but the challenge comes in understanding what you are doing. Understanding how to use the unit generators (I overheard the professor saying "unit generators" seems to be an old phrase, but I don't know what else to call them), and understanding the many STK

Changing the Face of Music: making your keyboard a musical instrument

Changing the Face of Music: Making your keyboard a musical instrument

             I view research as a process of examining society’s problems, and then look for ways to provide solutions for those problems. Research to me is never purposeless, but it always has an intrinsic goal to serve. After working on ChucK for the past few days and discovering how one can turn a computer keyboard into a musical instrument, I realized how this technique could be used to meet societal needs. Being an international student from a developing nation living in a developed nation now, I have a deep understanding of problems that could be in both developing and developed nations, and I continually realize that financial problems are not just a curse for developing nations—they exist in developed nations as well. Because many families and institutions barely make ends meet, musical instruments become luxuries to many. Many kids may even grow up without much knowledge of music, yet they are gifted and could do great in the field. As a way to curb problems of access to musical instruments, I thought it would be great if we could turn our keyboards into musical instruments. Instead of complaining about lack of money, we can enjoy the best of both worlds—our computers and the music. Even if the keyboard instruments may be so different from the real instruments, sparking an interest in any person about something may make it easier for that person to learn the real thing when exposed to it. Besides, this is a generation where people are doing things they have never done before, and breaking new ground, so this could be a dawn of a new era in music.

            There are also a bunch of other people who might not have garage band and other applications that play musical instruments on their computers, yet they love music, but they just cannot get off their computers to play an instrument, or the do not own an instrument. Such people could also benefit from the musical instrument models in ChucK.

What you need to turn your keyboard into a musical instrument

Thoughts/Brainstorming on Real-World Musical Creation with ChucK

//this post is just my own thoughts after having spent a couple days working with ChucK. I may update it in the future, or if I have new ideas after talking about these points with the other members of the group. Also it turned out very long. Sorry!

     I don't entirely understand the point of computer music.