I'm not sure whether anyone else has used the 40h with ChucK
(http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu), but since it's a music development
language often used for doing interesting controller stuff and has built
in OSC support...

After banging my head against the wall fiddling with left-right ordering
in complex Max patches, it was nice to be able to get something a few
lines long lighting up the 40h :)

B>

chuck is really promising. i met the guys from princeton awhile back, 
they seem quite dedicated.

best of all it's open-source.

it'd be great to see some examples (even the most boring) if you'd be 
inclined to post them.

I've been tinkering with ChucK for a while. I figured out how to add a 
function to do note-name -> MIDI note number into the base library a few 
months back, fixed the MIDI port display, and wrote a library of midi 
(output) handling routines in ChucK that made it much easier for me to 
work with my MIDI kit.

I think most of the ChucK people do direct audio generation/manipulation 
in ChucK which is interesting as well.

I've only got output to the 40h working at the moment, as soon as 
re-find the page with the OSC input example, I'll hack something simple 
together and post it here.

B>

Alright. Done.

I've written a simple follower, currently it doesn't do anything, but it 
would be really easy to add MIDI sending on configurable channels for 
example.

It treats the 40h as a x-y trackpad. THe current illimunate square is 
the nearest integer point to the current value which returns to the 
center if left alone. If you press a button, the point heads over to 
there, leaving a short-live light trail.

I think its' pretty nifty, and it was vastly easier to write in ChucK 
that it would have been in Max/MSP :)

Grab my source from

http://www.rattus.net/~packrat/audio/ChucK/monome/files/follow-40h.ck

Then grab the latest miniaudicle (nice graphical environment, or you can 
grab the command-line ChucK) from

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

Works find on my macbook. You might be surprised as to how little effort 
it took.

B>

very nice! i got it running almost instantly, really simple install. the 
code is really clear also.

do you mind if i post this up on the wiki?

tehn wrote:
> very nice! i got it running almost instantly, really simple install. the 
> code is really clear also.
> 
> do you mind if i post this up on the wiki?

Please do. Can you post a link, I'm going to be putting a little time 
into adding features and cleaning up the display some and then turning 
it into something really useful. I'll put some documentation about it on 
the webpage if and when it becomes useful too.

I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly I could put it together.

B>

added a wiki page for the follower (i like it, it's a great simple 
example for chuck)

http://wiki.monome.org/view/AppChuckFollow

i'd be very excited to see more examples. on that note, where are all of 
the processing and supercollider people?

Hi, im on an ibook 10.4, had no luck gettin Chuck to work last night, 
prob something I'm not clued up on, but following the chuck sites 
instructions I had no luck finding the directory.
Any hints as to finding out where i'm going wrong would be great; 
perhaps I need to study the terminal properly, I only used it a couple 
times.
Thanks,
Rob.