afterglow VS cowbells

Compare afterglow vs cowbells and see what are their differences.

afterglow

A live-coding lighting controller, building on the Open Lighting Architecture with Clojure and bits of Overtone. (by Deep-Symmetry)
Clojure dmx512 live-coding Midi Controller lighting
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cowbells

A Clojure library for musical experiments and live coding (by omkamra)
Clojure Midi fluidsynth live-coding
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afterglow cowbells
2 2
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2.4 3.5
about 1 year ago 4 months ago
Clojure Clojure
Eclipse Public License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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afterglow

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cowbells

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowbells. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-04-09.
  • Starting Your Computer Music Journey with Clojure and Overtone in Emacs
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Apr 2022
    I'm really fond of the idea of writing music like this.

    From all available implementations of the idea, I probably like Extempore (https://github.com/digego/extempore) the most. Extempore provides a low-level C-like language (xtlang) which compiles into LLVM and can be meta-programmed from a variant of Scheme (TinyScheme I believe). This arrangement makes it possible to generate the code for the audio graph from Scheme, compile/optimize it via LLVM, then drive it in a live-coding fashion from Emacs. Best of both worlds (high and low).

    My personal, much simpler attempt in this space is Cowbells (https://github.com/omkamra/cowbells) - with this one you can live-code FluidSynth (MIDI soundfonts) from Clojure + CIDER + Emacs, representing musical phrases either via Clojure data structures or an alternative text-based syntax (which is translated into the former by a compiler).

  • Show HN: Cowbells – A Clojure library for musical experiments and live coding
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing afterglow and cowbells you can also consider the following projects:

beat-link-trigger - Trigger events and automate shows in response to events on Pioneer CDJs

alda-clj - A Clojure library for live-coding music with Alda

Metabase - The simplest, fastest way to get business intelligence and analytics to everyone in your company :yum:

Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.

extempore - A cyber-physical programming environment

glicol - Graph-oriented live coding language and music/audio DSP library written in Rust

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