NAME¶

chuck — audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance

SYNOPSIS¶

chuck [--halt] [--loop] [--audio] [--silent] [--dump] [--nodump] [--about] [--srateN] [--bufsizeN] [--bufnumN] [--dacN] [--adcN] [--remotehostname] [--portN] [--verboseN] [--probe] [--blocking] [--callback] [--add] [--remove] [--replace] [--status] [--time] [--kill] [--version] [+] [-] [=] [^] [file1] [file2] [file2]

DESCRIPTION¶

This manual page briefly documents the chuck commands.

chuck is a new audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance, which runs on commodity operating systems.

chuck presents a new time-based concurrent programming model, which supports multiple, simultaneous, dynamic control rates, and the ability to add, remove, and modify code, on-the-fly, while the program is running, without stopping or restarting.

The chuck program is built with support for three audio back ends: jack, alsa, and pulse.

OPTIONS¶

A summary of options is included below.

--add file.ck

Add a file to a running chuck server.

--remove shrednumber

Remove a shred to a running chuck server.

--replace shrednumber file.ck

Replace an existing shred with another file.

--status

Print chuck server status information.

+ - = ^

Shortcuts for add, remove, replace and status.

--time

Get the current time.

--kill

Kill the chuck server.

--halt

Start in halt mode (default).

--loop

Start chuck in loop mode (daemon mode).

--audio

Start server with audio (default).

--silent

Start server in silent mode.

--dump

Dump compilation result (verbose mode).

--nodump

Do not dump compilation result.

--srateN

Set sampling rate (default to 48000 for jack, auto detected otherwise).

--bufsizeN

Set buffer size.

--bufnumN

Set number of buffer.

--dacN

Set output audio device.

--adcN

Set input audio device.

--remotehostname

Connect to remote hostname.

--portN

Connect/Listen on port number N.

--verboseN

Set verbosity level to N.

--probe

List available audio devices.

--blocking

Use blocking mode audio access.

--callback

Use callback mode audio access.

--about --help

Show summary of options.

--version

Show version of program.

SEE ALSO¶

/usr/share/doc/chuck/ChucK_manual.pdf

EXAMPLES¶

$ cd /usr/share/doc/chuck/examples

$ chuck otf_01.ck &

$ chuck --add otf_02.ck &

$ chuck + otf_0[4567].ck

$ chuck - 0

$ chuck --kill

AUTHOR¶

This manual page was written by Paul Brossier <piem@altern.org>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.