Tidal VS scheme-for-max

Compare Tidal vs scheme-for-max and see what are their differences.

scheme-for-max

Max/MSP external for scripting and live coding Max with s7 Scheme Lisp (by iainctduncan)
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Tidal scheme-for-max
24 34
2,094 181
2.0% -
6.7 4.7
29 days ago 5 months ago
C++ C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Tidal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Tidal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-01.

scheme-for-max

Posts with mentions or reviews of scheme-for-max. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-24.
  • Learn How to Build Your Own Max for Live Devices
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jan 2024
  • Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
    149 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Apr 2023
    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

  • Controlling parameters with audio?
    2 projects | /r/ableton | 4 Apr 2023
  • Processing audio buffers with Scheme for Max (cookbook and tutorial)
    2 projects | /r/MaxMSP | 24 Feb 2023
    To download Scheme for Max and for tutorials, documentation, and the cookbook, visit the GitHub page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
  • The Janet Language
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2023
    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!

  • Which coding language to start with?
    3 projects | /r/livecoding | 1 Feb 2023
    Project page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
  • Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
    44 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jan 2023
    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

  • Common Lisp and Music Composition
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jan 2023
    On a closely related note, and possibly of interest, I am the author of Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd, which put the Common Music 3 Scheme interpreter in Max and Pure Data. Common Music's most recent version used s7 Scheme as the language, which is mostly a a Scheme but borrows many features from Common Lisp (keywords, defmacro, etc). With Scheme for Max, you can basically run almost all Common Music code inside Max, Ableton Live, and Pd, allowing you to use it with more commercial tools (such as VST instruments, etc). It has extensive API functions for hooking into the host scheduler and data structures as well as running Lisp/Scheme code.

    Project is here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

  • Suggested resources for learning the JVM well?
    2 projects | /r/Clojure | 8 Jan 2023
  • Hacking Perl in Nighclubs (2004)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Jul 2022
    There are many very "serious" ones, but they won't replace DAWs because the audience for a programming language tool for computer music looks is very different.

    A few off the top of my head that are used and/or made by serious computer music people: Common Music, Nyquist, Euterpea, Open Music, Common Lisp Music, Snd, Csound, SuperCollider, Chuck, Perry Cook's STK, and my own Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd.

    My own Scheme for Max is (modesty aside) interesting because it takes one of the serious code tool lineages and enables running it in a DAW. It allows you to port Common Music algorithmic composition code into Ableton Live through Scheme for Max. You get the ability to work in and sync up with Live, but if you want it, all the potential complexity and power of Scheme and Common Music.

    https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Tidal and scheme-for-max you can also consider the following projects:

janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm

overtone - Collaborative Programmable Music

Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.

Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio

score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]

BespokeSynth - Software modular synth

pyo - Python DSP module

Fennel - Lua Lisp Language

awesome-live-coding-music - A curated list of awesome Live Coding Music frameworks, libraries and software.

faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis