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ChucK: a Concurrent, On-the-fly, Audio Programming Language

ChucK home page: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ http://chuck.stanford.edu/

what is it: ChucK is a general-purpose programming language, intended for real-time audio synthesis and graphics/multimedia programming. It introduces a truly concurrent programming model that embeds timing directly in the program flow. Other potentially useful features include the ability to write/change programs on-the-fly.

who it is for: audio/multimedia researchers, developers, composers, and performers

what this distribution includes:

• ChucK compiler
• ChucK virtual machine
• tutorials and documentation
• license + other information

supported platforms:

• MacOS X (CoreAudio)
• Linux (ALSA/OSS)
• Windows/Cygwin (DirectSound)

authors: see AUTHORS

ChucK home page: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ http://chuck.stanford.edu/

ChucK documentation: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/

Princeton Sound Lab: http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/

CCRMA: http://ccrma.stanford.edu/

*** QUICK START ***

Visit the ChucK home page (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/)

• the ChucK tutorial

• documentation

• developer's guide

• programmer's guide

• publications

• HTML version: (http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/doc/) (we recommend reading HTML version)

• TEXT only documents: README - this document COPYING/AUTHORS/THANKS - info INSTALL - build and install instructions QUICKSTART - quick start for ChucK DEVELOPER - developer's guide PROGRAMMER - programmer's guide TODO - list of DONE and TODO