extempore VS scheme-for-pd

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.

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

Check out https://github.com/digego/extempore by Andrew Sorenson

Extempore

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).

I have also made a pure data version is you need it to be free to run, though that is less full featured. https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd

Scheme for Pd is a Pd port of (most of) Scheme for Max. It enables you to script and live code Pd with s7 Scheme, including working with the scheduler, hot reloading code, and dynamically running Scheme code in Pd built from messages. I'm pretty sure I've done the right thing for win32 and win64, one should be able to download the zip file, expand in your externals directory, add this directory to your Pd file paths, and be good to go. It would be lovely if a windows user can try this out and let me know either way. Project page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd Release: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd/releases/tag/0.1-beta

No, but Pure Data is. I have ported Scheme for Max to PureData as more minimal version, but it's newer and does require building from source. I'll be doing more work on the Pd version over the next few months though, and I'd say 80-90% fo the examples and docs for Scheme for Max work identically (or with very little alteration) on Pd. The Pd project is here: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd

I just heard about https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-pd (it seems to be a place holder & a port of the Scheme for Max project)