extempore VS cowbells

Compare extempore vs cowbells and see what are their differences.

extempore

A cyber-physical programming environment (by digego)

cowbells

A Clojure library for musical experiments and live coding (by omkamra)
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extempore cowbells
9 2
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2.4 3.5
6 months ago 3 months ago
C++ Clojure
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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extempore

Posts with mentions or reviews of extempore. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.

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).

What are some alternatives?

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

Sonic Pi - Code. Music. Live.

awesome-livecoding - All things livecoding

orca - C Multi-REST API library for Discord, Slack, Reddit, etc.

alda - A music programming language for musicians. :notes:

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

miti - miti is a musical instrument textual interface. Basically, its MIDI, but with human-readable text. :musical_note:

Orca - Esoteric Programming Language

melrose - interactive programming of melodies, producing MIDI

textbeat - 🎹 plaintext music sequencer and midi shell, with vim playback and the powers of music theory 🥁

chords2midi - Create MIDI files from numerical chord progressions!

aeon - A live-coding system for musical pattern manipulation

cyber - Fast and concurrent scripting.