How to route proxies to each other?

[kflak]

Hi,

My (currently) favorite way of creating an effect chain in sclang goes a bit like this:

Ndef(\test, Pdef(\test)).play;
Ndef(\test).filter(1, {|in|
		(in * 30.dbamp).tanh;
                 // ... more signal processing...
});

... where Pdef(\test) is some pattern generating sound.

Is this possible to replicate in cl-collider?

[defaultxr]

With standard cl-collider and cl-patterns, I would do that like this:

(defvar *bus* (bus-audio :chanls 2))

(pb :test
  ;; your pattern code here
  :out *bus*)

(proxy :process
       (let* ((sig (in.ar *bus* 2))
              (sig (tanh (* 30 sig))))
         sig))
       :pos :head)

(Note that the synthdef you use in :test will need to have an out parameter that controls the bus it writes to)

proxy is the closest analog cl-collider has to Ndef currently, but it doesn't manage audio buses for you.

I wrote a macro that wraps proxy which does manage buses, so you could do something like this instead, but I haven't gotten around to cleaning it up and publishing it yet. Need to do that...

(pb :test
  ;; your pattern code here
  :out (dn :process))

(dn :process (:fx)
  :sig (tanh (* 30 sig))
  :out (b2 sig))

[kflak]

Good to know :-) So for now I'll go for the old-school way of doing things, and wait with excitement for your dn macro!

[kflak]

Did some work on this #154... @defaultxr how close is this to what you've been working on?