I am back. More coding. More tango (not pictured).

Sooooo...

Supercollider Code to Compress a Control Signal (or do any ar - only UGEN thing to it) and then Forward it to Osculator which turns it into a MIDI ctrl signal to Change something in Ableton Live.

I. Kid. You. Not.

And yet, it was relatively simple to implement, and once I remembered that magic "SendReply" call I was able to send the modified signal on to Ableton. I know I know, I should just get Max4Live, but look, that costs money, and I'm spending all my money on sensors and stuff and also, I'm just... so much faster in other paradigms. I actually have a year's subscription to regular MAX/MSP, in case I really need it for this project, etc.

I hesitated using Ableton Live, but in terms of the project, I think it fits, and it lets me go faster. Tango is a popular song, and the whole Live paradigm isn't forcing me into a song structure that shouldn't already be there.... and I will need to loop and etc. At the very least, it is super valuable for prototyping.

//add this synth def

(

SynthDef('sendShimmerCompress', { 

| whichControlBus = 0, thresh1 = 0.8, makeUpAmp = 1, sID=1908 |

var cSig, kout, sigOut = In.kr(whichControlBus); 

cSig = K2A.ar(sigOut); 

cSig = Compander.ar(cSig, cSig,

thresh: thresh1,

slopeBelow: 1,

slopeAbove: 0.1,

clampTime: 0.01,

relaxTime: 0.01);

kout = A2K.kr(cSig * makeUpAmp); 

SendReply.kr(Impulse.kr(50), 'compressShimmer', [ kout ], sID);

}).add;

)

//call it, make sure to add your own sID for each different signal

v = Synth.new('sendShimmerCompress', [\sID, 2345]); 

//add the OSCResponder to forward the call on to wherever.

(

g.remove; 

g = OSCresponderNode(nil, '/compressShimmer', { |t, r, msg| 

var sID; 

var shimmer1X = 2345; 

var oscM; 

sID = msg[2]; //which shimmer & sensor value is it?

if(sID == shimmer1X, {    

oscM = "/1/fader1"; 

});

c = NetAddr.new("127.0.0.1", 8000); // create the NetAddr
c.sendMsg(oscM, msg[3]);

 }).add;

 )