Perry Cook & Ajay Kapur 
Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists [EPUB ebook] 
Creating music with ChucK

Summary Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists: Creating Music with Chuc K offers a complete introduction to programming in the open source music language Chuc K. In it, you’ll learn the basics of digital sound creation and manipulation while you discover the Chuc K language. As you move example-by-example through this easy-to-follow book, you’ll create meaningful and rewarding digital compositions and "instruments" that make sound and music in direct response to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network.Purchase of the print book includes a free e Book in PDF, Kindle, and e Pub formats from Manning Publications.About this Book A digital musician must manipulate sound precisely. Chuc K is an audio-centric programming language that provides precise control over time, audio computation, and user interface elements like track pads and joysticks. Because it uses the vocabulary of sound, Chuc K is easy to learn even for artists with little or no exposure to computer programming.Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists offers a complete introduction to music programming. In it, you’ll learn the basics of digital sound manipulation while you learn to program using Chuc K. Example-by-example, you’ll create meaningful digital compositions and "instruments" that respond to program logic, scores, gestures, and other systems connected via MIDI or the network. You’ll also experience how Chuc K enables the on-the-fly musical improvisation practiced by communities of "live music coders" around the world.Written for readers familiar with the vocabulary of sound and music. No experience with computer programming is required.What’s Inside Learn Chuc K and digital music creation side-by-side Invent new sounds, instruments, and modes of performance Written by the creators of the Chuc K language About the Authors Perry Cook, Ajay Kapur, Spencer Salazar, and Ge Wang are pioneers in the area of teaching and programming digital music. Ge is the creator and chief architect of the Chuc K language.Table of Contents Introduction: Chuc K programming for artists PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO PROGRAMMING IN CHUCKBasics: sound, waves, and Chuc K programming Libraries: Chuc K’s built-in tools Arrays: arranging and accessing your compositional data Sound files and sound manipulation Functions: making your own tools PART 2 NOW IT GETS REALLY INTERESTING!Unit generators: Chuc K objects for sound synthesis and processing Synthesis Tool Kit instruments Multithreading and concurrency: running many programs at once Objects and classes: making your own Chuc K power tools Events: signaling between shreds and syncing to the outside world Integrating with other systems via MIDI, OSC, serial, and more