[PlanetCCRMA] Some questions about Chuck

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On 05/18/2011 11:59 PM, luca paganotti wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently discovered the ChucK programming language and I have some
> questions for you about possible applications.

Others in the list might have more experience with ChucK, but you may 
want to repost the question in the ChucK mailing list anyway:

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-- Fernando


> I'm trying to use/evaluate the usage of faust, pd and ChucK for a single
> application that is not directly related to music. I work as a developer
> for noise related applications (in particular we manage aircraft noise
> and in general noise pollution).
>
> I briefly explain what I would like to do. Let's say that I have a noise
> source that I would like to limit. Let's say that I measure the noise
> with a microphone in the vicinity of the noise source where i think the
> noise could disturb someone. The mic input is needed to compute some
> meaningfull indexes in a defined time interval, let's say 1 second or
> more, and then this value could be used as a reference to change the
> amplitude of the noise source if it exceeds the reference value.
> I make a couple of examples:
>
>    1. maybe I need to limit the noise production of a pub where there is
>       live music so to reduce noise pollution outside the pub ...
>    2. maybe I gather with my friends to play some music in my house and
>       I would like not to annoy my neighbours ...
>
> I've read the ChucK docs and found that I can have analyzer units but at
> the moment they are only built in (fft, ifft, ...) and that in the near
> future there will be the possibility to develop my own analyzer unit ...
>
> So my questions are:
>
>    1. Do you think that ChucK could be a profitable choice to have this
>       job done?
>    2. Have you plans and timings for the user built analyzers unit
>       support in ChucK?
>
> Thanks by now for any answer.
>
> Luca Paganotti
>
>
>
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