Previously discussed on the show when we had an interview with Spencer Salazar on show 56. ChucK version 1.3 has now been released featuring ChuGins.

You can get ChucK online at http://chuck.stanford.edu/.

From the release notes

1.3.0.0
- (added) Chugins: dynamically loaded compiled classes/ugens
see http://chuck.stanford.edu/extend/ for examples.
- (added) new command line options
–chugin-load:{auto|off}     disable/enable chugin loading
-gFILE/–chugin:FILE         load chugin at FILE
-GPATH/–chugin-path:PATH    load all chugins in directory PATH
–dac:NAME                   use dac with name matching NAME
–adc:NAME                   use adc with name matching NAME
- (added) Chubgraphs: create ugens by compositing existing UGens
see examples/extend/chubgraph.ck
- (added) ChuGens: create ugen by implementing audio-rate processing in ChucK
see examples/extend/chugen.ck
- (added) new ugens:
- WvOut2: stereo uncompressed audio file output
- SndBuf2: stereo uncompressed audio file input
- (added) new functions:
- me.sourcePath()
returns file path of source file corresponding to this shred
- me.sourceDir()
returns directory of source file corresponding to this shred
- MidiIn.open(string name)
open MIDI input matching name
- MidiOut.open(string name)
open MIDI output matching name
- Hid.open(string name)
open HID matching name
- (added) experimental OS X multitouch HID
- (fixed) real-time audio on Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
- (fixed) IO.newline() now flushes “chout”
- (fixed) “chout” and “cherr” now invoke member functions correctly
- (fixed) no for statement conditional handled correctly
- (fixed) STK WvOut correctly handles case when file open fails
- (fixed) << operator for arrays now correctly references counts
- (fixed) crashing bug when receiving external events at a high-rate
(“the OSC bug”)
- (fixed) scope closing correctly dereferences local objects
- (fixed) crash when exiting shreds with connected ugens
- (fixed) deallocation of “empty” Shred object no longer crashes
- (fixed) crash when HID events are sent to an exited shred
- (fixed) destructors for built-in objects are executed