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Tidal
- Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
- I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts
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13 Years of History Teaching - Now Thrown Into CS.
So you’re wondering what would making music with code look like? The tools I’m familiar with are TidalCycles, Sonic Pi, and SuperCollider. I’m having a hard time describing what it’s like to make music with tools like these so here’s a video of a performance. One person is live coding the music and the other is live coding the visuals. I think it’s super cool how the music is improvised and built over time by layering commands. Some keywords you could search to see more examples would be Algorave and Livecoding.
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Where is Haskell used?
https://tidalcycles.org/ is another great example, parsing patterns of text and printing live music.
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Live coding languages
For sound live coding/algorave sonic pi and tidal cycles are great, both based on supercollider.
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Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
I don't know the alternatives but I'm a big fan of https://tidalcycles.org/. People really do crazy things, check out the videos on the front page.
I love when 2 DJs live-code together (on the same document! Editing each other's loops) or when a VJ live-codes some visuals in reaction to the DJ live-coding the music.
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What is a little known subject/application/problem that you learned about recently or are involved in that you think is fascinating?
If you're interested in ChuCK, there's also Pure Data (a FOSS cousin of the commercial Max/MSP) and SuperCollider and a lot of live coding algorave sorta music things are built on top of SuperCollider like TidalCycles so you can execute lines of code live via a REPL or evaluating blocks of code in a document and generate beats in realtime.
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The Way in Which Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Tidal Cycles! https://tidalcycles.org/
As layer8 mentioned, it is technically Haskell but more specifically a DSL and environment for live coding music.
Pretty fun to play around with!
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How would someone who is deathly broke become a serious rapper?
After digging deeper, I've found TidalCycles tidalcycles.org and that's my favorite Livecoding software. Now you can start programming music without any cost.
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Formalizing Konnakol using Haskell - GSoC '22
The code written in this regard can be found here. My contributions focused on designing, implementing and integrating the Sequence module with the help of the Context module.
scheme-for-max
- Music for Programming
- Learn How to Build Your Own Max for Live Devices
- MAX lessons
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
Mine is Scheme for Max, now on it's fourth open source release, but really written so I could make computer music how I want to. It's an extension to the popular Max/MSP visual music programming environment that embeds an s7 Scheme interpreter and provides a substantial API/FFI to Max. It allows you to script Max (and thus also Ableton Live) with Scheme, enabling interactive coding, algorithmic music, live coding, macros, and just much more pleasant scripting than in JavaScript. It locks in with the scheduler so you can even use Scheme powered sequencers within Ableton Live alongside regular Live tracks, and you can build sophisticated Live control surfaces using the Live API.
Github page here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
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Need explanation for MIDI
The project page is here, with links to lots of documentation I've done: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
- Controlling parameters with audio?
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Processing audio buffers with Scheme for Max (cookbook and tutorial)
To download Scheme for Max and for tutorials, documentation, and the cookbook, visit the GitHub page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
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The Janet Language
If you like things like Janet, you might also like s7 Scheme. It is also a minimal Scheme built entirely in C and dead easy to embed. I used it to make Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd, extensions to the Max and Pd computer music platform to allow scripting them in Scheme. (https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max) Janet was one of the options I looked pretty closely at before choosing s7.
The author (Bill Schottstaedt, Stanford CCRMA) is not too interested in making pretty web pages, ha, but the language is great!
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Which coding language to start with?
Project page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
I created Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pure Data. They are extensions to the Max/MSP, Ableton Live, and Pure Data computer music environments that embed an s7 Scheme interpreter in the host so that you can script, automate, and live code the hosts with s7, a Scheme from the CCRMA computer music center at Stanford and the same one used in the Snd editor and the Common Music 3 algorithmic composition environment. This allows you to do things like write algorithmic music tools, sequencers, and use the Ableton Live API in Scheme, including with Common Lisp style macros. It has an API for integrating with Max to share data structures, hook into the scheduler, run in the high priority thread, and so on. S4M allows you to do all the goodness of high level music programming in a Lisp, without losing the ability to use modern commercial tooling and instruments. It's my thesis project for a Masters in Music Technology with Andy Schloss and George Tzanetakis at the University of Victoria, and I plan to continue to a PhD working on it. I tried submitting twice, but it never made the page, which surprised me a bit given Lisp interest here.
The github page is here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
The youtube channel with various demos is here: https://www.youtube.com/c/musicwithlisp
What are some alternatives?
overtone - Collaborative Programmable Music
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio
faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]
csound - Main repository for Csound
score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
binaryen - DEPRECATED in favor of ghc wasm backend, see https://www.tweag.io/blog/2022-11-22-wasm-backend-merged-in-ghc
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth
glicol - Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust
pyo - Python DSP module