chuck-max 0.1.1 prerelease

This is a macOS-only pre-release of the chuck-max package which contains the chuck~ external, the base ccrma chugins including Faust.chug and WarpBuf.chug, and a large number of chuck examples and Max patchers to demo use.

The pre-release is available as a code signed and notarized .dmg. To install just move the chuck-max folder into $HOME/Documents/Max 8/Packages.

Please report any issues on the project's issue tracker.

Thanks to @HighHarmonics2 for providing excellent usage feedback, bug reports, and for contributing some great examples!

This pre-release includes the following changes since the prior version:

[0.1.1]

• Added run_needs_audio attribute to ensure that adding or running shred can only happen when dsp is on.

• Added patcher directory to search paths for added chuck file.

• Added improved callback demos for global vars

• Changed remove message to able to take more than than one shred_id

• Added test for use of global variables and a practical test of its use in a musical patch.

• Fixed bug which prevented sending lists of atoms as chuck arrays.

• Improved path handling: run, add, replace, edit now all use same mechanism to check file validity, fix partial path if file is in examples, or otherwise search in Max search path.

• Changed / improved chuck~.maxhelp to make it clearer and more readable.

• Added docs message to open chuck documentation in browser

• Updated chuck code base to 1.5.2.5-dev (chai)

• Added fallback search for file based on locatefile_extended if given path is not absolute or found in the chuck-max/examples folder.

• Added support for setting file and editor attributes, to facilitate use of external editor via setting inspector vars or via setting editor <path> and edit <filename>. Also double-clicking on the chuck~ object will open the current file in the specified external editor.

• Theadd and replace messages now both handle chuck style file args: add <path>:<arg1>:<arg2>:<argN> While this is consistent without chuck treats file arguments, there is some thought to making this more readable and Max friendly in the future by dropping the colons to adopt the following style: add <path> <arg1> <arg2> ... <argN>

• Fixed chuck~ object args to allow just the number of channels as args.

• Added midi player to .maxhelp to demonstrate midi file playback of chuck~ from Max.

• Added loglevel / loglevel <int> message for setting chuck log level 0-10. Dropped redundant previous debug switch/attribute.

• Added a number of missing chuck messages: add <filepath>, replace <shredID> <filepath>, reset id, clear vm, clear globals, time, status along with their respective symbols: +, -, --, =, ^, etc.

• Changed back to keeping all chugins in chuck-max/examples/chugins (alternative is to move chugins and faust stdlib to support)

• Added support for building the Faust or Fauck chugin with the faust
  stdlib in chuck-max/examples/faust

• Added support for building the WarpBuf chugin

• Changed the content and structure of the examples folder to more closely resemble the updated chuck examples folder. See the README.md file in the folder for a more granular list of changes.

• For macOS, chugins are now installed in the external's Resources/chugins folder. The chugins folder in examples is still searched for chugins in any case

• Removed posix header includes and replaced with x-platform code in aid of eventual windows support

• Added callback mechanism and example

• Added examples for local and global event triggering

• Fixed the sndbuf.ck exmample (and added sndbuf1.ck) to demonstrate wav file playback via SndBuf with some samples

• Changed signal message name to sig as it conflicted with a global Max message signal

• Added optional channels argument which to set more channels at object creation

• Changed info: now shows <object id> - <shred-id>

• Added test for two object instances running simultaneously

• Added info message to list running shreds in the console

• Update to chuck 1.5.2.3-dev (chai)