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- Does anyone here know of a music system for Scheme?
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Why don't more languages implement LISP-style interactive REPLs?
I've use a few "live coding" programming environments focused around audio programming where this is also the norm. Extempore ( https://github.com/digego/extempore, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c ) is a great example of this.
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Cyber is a new language for fast, efficient, and concurrent scripting
I grew up in the 70s with the term cybernetics from Norber Wiener, and I liked it before Gibson's Neuromancer in the 80s, so I guess I was inoculated before the pandemic use of the word. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is a term being bandied about a bit now (reading Logical Foundations of Cyber-Physical Systems, and it is pretty cool [1]; Andrew Sorensen's Extempore as a CPS environment [2]). I also attended the first HOPE in 1994 in NYC and although the press abused the term cyber, it's still cool to me! But the Papa John's stuff was funny.
[1] https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-63588-0
[2] https://github.com/digego/extempore
- Carp - If Clojure and Rust Had A Baby
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Racket for Computer Music?
Check out https://github.com/digego/extempore by Andrew Sorenson
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Best Lisp/scheme for OSDev?
Extempore
- Scheme-y music software
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Starting Your Computer Music Journey with Clojure and Overtone in Emacs
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).
- Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
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Show HN: Code music in Python that generates MIDI
Interesting approach. There has been much activity in recent years in live coding with a lot of interesting solutions.
> most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting
Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours. There is also an algorithcmic composition language called SAL which is used in Common Music (https://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) and Niquist (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nyquist/).
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alda VS midica - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2023
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If musicians named programming languages, what would we be working in?
As a semi-serious answer Alda: https://alda.io/
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Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone
Look into Alda music programming language - it's possible to write classical music with it. It's more like MIDI or classical notation - you don't care about sound but you specify notes.
https://alda.io/
- Alda – text-based programming language for music composition
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“Compiling” Music
check out https://alda.io/ - it takes some form of music notation and plays it using general MIDI synth
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Questions on Alda
Hi! The way it works is that you save alda files to a text file, then you play them using the alda player using the command line. I haven't looked into Alda 2 yet, but you can take a look at the documentation here
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
Looks like a previous version was mostly a Clojure DSL, but the latest major version no longer is. There are variables and other useful features we know from other programming languages that aren't mentioned on the landing page.
Of course there are also varying definitions of what a programming language is. For instance, I consider CSS to be a programming language, but I know many people disagree with that position (and that's okay). I personally don't think that a "programming language" must be a general-purpose, turing-complete language. Alda seems to be a non-general purpose, turing-incomplete language. At this point though, we're maybe getting into semantics a bit.
Syntax change: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/alda-2-mig...
- Alda – a text-based programming language for music composition
What are some alternatives?
Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.
textbeat - 🎹 plaintext music sequencer and midi shell, with vim playback and the powers of music theory 🥁
awesome-livecoding - All things livecoding
homebrew-lilypond - Install LilyPond from homebrew/core instead of this tap: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/lilypond
orca - C Multi-REST API library for Discord, Slack, Reddit, etc.
Orca - Esoteric Programming Language
miti - miti is a musical instrument textual interface. Basically, its MIDI, but with human-readable text. :musical_note:
MuseScore - MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
melrose - interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI
chords2midi - Create MIDI files from numerical chord progressions!