This was inaccurate. Women and gay men can be catty. I do not have that capacity. You could call me an asshole, a dickwad, or a doucheburger and you would be stating your opinion. If you were feeling creative you could call me a placenta al fresco. If you wanted to kick it old school, you could call me a jerk. Using my own terms against me would make me a muppetfucker. Asshat would be the term of choice in Internet slang. Thanks partly to hip-hop and partly to Dane Cook, you could even call me a bitch or a whore, but catty? Calling me catty is just bad writing. It's like referring to a penguin as diaphanous.
Tom's blog post also contained a useful little script.
This script is essentially a tiny, simple drum machine. I put it through a minor rewrite to feature more samples.
You can actually use this script as a drum machine if you download ChucK and put some drum samples in a directory called
drums. I got these drum samples from SampleSwap; you can download them directly or, if you have GarageBand on your machine and haven't thrown away its built-in sample library like me, just copy them from somewhere in the unwashed nether regions of /Library/Application Support/GarageBand/.Assuming you've got the
drums samples set up, all you have to do is download the script and run it like this:
Kudos to Tom for providing something useful. Would have been cooler if he had done it differently, but hey, at least he did it. Although this is, not to belabor a point, totally useless for live performance, it's a fun and cheap alternative to Reason and GarageBand if you're looking for a way to play with Archaeopteryx.
Update: I should point out, you also need to send this ChucK script MIDI messages, e.g., by opening another Terminal window, heading to your Archaeopteryx dir, and being all
ruby eval_style.rb or something.
