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Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
> It’s haven’t bought any Modular’s yet but I’m really looking forward to getting into other on the new year.
The former is libre and gratis, runs as a standalone or plugin and in the browser!! and is based on the latter.
Ther former has a libre and gratis standalone version, the plugin version is non-gratis.
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Ask HN: Whats the modern day equivalent of 80s computer for kids to explore?
A music synthesizer. It's a pathway to learning electronics, music, and the nature of sound. There are cheap kits, cheap synths, lots of kinds of synths, and there are much more complicated and expensive systems you can grow into. You can get software synths also, VCV Rack is a free though complex one:
However I'd recommend an inexpensive hardware one with real knobs you can turn, like one of the Korg Volca series:
https://www.korg-volca.com/en/
Recording the sounds can lead into exploring all the concepts and gear involved in recording and mixing music. It's not mutually exclusive with doing other things also, you can play with both synths and computers and being involved with something artistic can add dimensions to and an escape from the nature of classwork/work.
Some other suggestions: gardening, high voltage electronics (with lots of supervision), electronics, photography, movie making, ham radio (gnu radio), show lighting systems (there's more than disco lights, robotics is involved), robotics, acoustic instruments (guitar, piano, flute, drums), sensors (you don't necessarily have to know electronics, get a data logger with built in sensors), weather monitoring/forecasting, hydraulic systems (with supervision), wood working, metal working, 3D printing, bird watching, painting, minibikes/small engines.
- What Is the Future of the DAW?
- Should I pull the trigger?
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Long time Cubase user who is leaving a more traditional electronic workflow to modular hardware... Bitwig seems to be the DAW more for this style possibly? Any opinions first hand?
Also I would suggest the paid version of VCV rack which works as a VST too ( the free version is just stand alone ) Expecially when experimenting with modular ( believe me, it can save you a fortune whilst you learn what different modules do ) I would also recommend Omri Cohens Youtube channel for learning this too.
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Show HN: Building musical synthesizers with SQL queries
I tend to open, and play, with https://github.com/VCVRack/Rack daily...
I haven't in the last few as I make horrific noises with SQL instead ;)
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Beginner - where to learn?
https://vcvrack.com/ goes even further . It really forces you however to think of synthesizers in their fundamental terms; if you're familiar with programming, TAL and Tyrell are more like higher-level languages while VCV is machine language. You can make anything, but you have to build everything from scratch .
- Interests in Generative, Electronic, Loop-Based, Computer Music?
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Get Into Music: Variety Pack Software Bundle
VCV Rack is going to be intimidating if you're a beginner (it's certainly intimidating to me), but if you have any interest in modular synthesis, this lets you emulate your own modular synth. Endless possibilities once you climb that learning curve
- Ask HN: What was the best software that you used during 2022?
scheme-for-max
- Learn How to Build Your Own Max for Live Devices
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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
- 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
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Common Lisp and Music Composition
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?
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Hacking Perl in Nighclubs (2004)
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.
What are some alternatives?
Cardinal - Virtual modular synthesizer plugin
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]
zynthian-sys - System configuration scripts & files for Zynthian.
curriculum - The open curriculum for learning web development
DaisySP - A Powerful DSP Library in C++
JUCE - JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
teensy-juno - A Teensy 3.x/4.x based polyphonic synthesizer, modelled after the Juno-106
score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
aseprite - Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)