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csound
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csound VS midica - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2023
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How have you used coding in your setup?
Nobody has mentioned Csound.
- Little Languages for Music (1990) [pdf]
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The Octave Divided into Five Parts in 50 edo
Thank you so much for your appreciation ! I'm planning a blog post abou that... but, meanwhile: I use the following free software: 1) Huygens Fokker Scala to tune files (see below which ones); 2) SynthFont (in combination with soundfonts) to play the files tuned by Scala; The files in 1) are text files essentially representing pitches and durations. I set them up by means of an electronic spreadsheet :) Here's a link to Huygens Fokker Scala: http://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/ The underlying logic is definitely an "abc" one, rather than WYSIWYG. I'm still working under Windows, but I'm trying to switch to Linux, so I could need to replace Scala (which still doesn't install smoothly on recent distros) by Csound: https://csound.com/ 🙂 (Scala doesn't install smoothly on recent Linux distros).
- Interests in Generative, Electronic, Loop-Based, Computer Music?
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Cheapest way to make music
Pure Data, cSound, and SuperCollider are all free and opensource. Incredible possibility, though the learning curb can be steep.
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How did you guys get into synthesizers?
For fun, I took a class in computer music. I still did not know what a synthesizer was. Once class got under way, we started using this archaic horrible piece of software, Csound. Not long into the class, it finally kind of dawned on me that synths exist, what they are and how they work, and I started buying gear. Once I had gear, I really really hated Csound, and I wound up dropping the class (Covid had something to do with that). A lot of things started to make sense (Regular Show, for instance) and I got really interested in sound design.
- dub team but i think it means something else
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Instrument design tools?
CSound looks interesting: https://csound.com
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Is there an equivalent to shaders for audio-programming?
csound would be interesting to play with.
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?
faust - Functional programming language for signal processing and sound synthesis
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
supercollider - An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio
Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]
alda - A music programming language for musicians. :notes:
score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth
Tidal - Pattern language
pyo - Python DSP module