hydra VS Sonic Pi

Different hydra

https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra

I heard about vvvv in my first year of studying in this industry. And kyma for sound design.

But I later discovered that the more mainstream ones are puredata and its commercial version max/msp. for sound design I also use: supercollider and csound.

After some years, I felt that I still preferred text-based interaction while I need some even simpler live coding or prototyping tool. so I made glicol.

for visuals, I would recommend:

https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

and

https://nannou.cc/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QY2x6aZzqc

Graphics

- Processing is a great place to start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JzDttgdILQ

- Great intro to programming shaders for art from kishimisu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4s1h2YETNY

- Inigo Quilex invented ShaderToy among other things. I haven't watched this yet but I'm sure it's awesome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFld4EBO2RE

- Hydra looks pretty neat for live-coding graphics in the browser: https://hydra.ojack.xyz/

I was really hoping to find a platform that would allow for integrating a programmatic 'score' of music and drive visuals from it, like one step above just using the wave-form to trigger visuals.. I don't know if I've found what I'm happy with yet.. I think I'll try to hook up the OSC signals from SuperCollider with some visuals, but not sure. I want to use shaders if possible, and SC doesn't really support that. Gibber seems great but I'm not sure. Maybe Tidal has it, but the Tidal lang might take a while to learn. I want to use raw frequency values for the notes as much as possible, and that's really easy in SC. I don't want to be stuck using midi notes.

Or https://github.com/hydra-synth/hydra (Livecoding networked visuals in the browser, since 2017)

http://hydra.ojack.xyz would be my secondary recommendation. You can pull all different kinds of source into it and do lots of the typical video mixer effects plus a lot more.

If you like this, then you will probably like /r/livecoding. https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ is a great starting point if you'd like to code visuals - it is JS based, reactive to audio, quite easy to get started.

hydra - this is a free browser based coding environment that generates visuals. There’s a lot of documentation on their site on how to use it which is great. I’m not super knowledgeable on it but there’s a very active discord server.

Hi there, I just have a friends small party and I'm looking for online visual generators to mix into Resolume via iPad or web browser, is just for fun so is not worth to generate visuals from scratch since is a very small party and we want only to have fun with the projector so I'm looking for online (or iPad apps) that can generate visual elements to mix like ( http://spacetypegenerator.com/ , https://hydra.ojack.xyz/ or https://patatap.com/) so I can run them in an iPad and have some fun with feedback and Resolume. Do you know more resources like this?

Im using hydra.ojack.xyz for a university project and am having some issues. I am aiming to use my laptop mic to affect the onscreen visuals with the audio. I have literally 0 coding knowledge so was using openAI for help but the code its giving me doesn't seem to be working.

I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/

Something fascinating about seeing a 'score' for generative music written out as a sort of specification like that.

There's enough detail there that you can take those instructions and reimplement your own version of it, and you'll end up with essentially the same 'piece of music', but certainly a different interpretation of it. Because while the score lays out some details precisely, it leaves other choices less clear. What does 'all inversions' really mean when enumerating chords? Does it include open, spread voicings? What durations should we choose from for our random waveforms? How short is 'short' when deciding to repeat? And of course, what wave synths should you use, and how should you modulate them?

All those are similar to the decisions a traditional instrumentalist makes when interpreting a sheet music score for performance - here, a generative music coder can follow this 'score' and produce a program that represents their own interpretation of the piece.

Coding it up in Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) was a fun exercise, and I feel like I was able to produce something along the lines of what the composer intended. It carries the same kind of mood that the recording in the video has. But it's my own 'performance' of the work, if that makes sense (even if it's actually Sonic Pi 'performing' it at runtime...)

All of which got me thinking about the relationship more generally between specification, and implementation. Considering different programmers' implementations of algorithms as individual 'performances' of scores from the overall design - and then thinking about developers building elements of a larger system architecture as individual performers working to deliver their part of the performance as part of a band or orchestra. Some groups, maybe they're directed by a conductor-architect; others maybe are improvisers, riffing off one another and occasionally stepping up to deliver a solo. And some are maybe solid session performers, showing up and delivering strong but unflashy performances to a producer's specification.

So overall, a nice meditative coding exercise for a Sunday afternoon, and a shift in perspective. Thanks for sharing it.

On a seriously light-hearted note, Herve Aniglo, talked about teaching children to code with music using Sonic PI, a language agnostic platform that helps you learn recursions, looping, circuit breaking and functional programming by creating simple tunes.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYzvS8A_rTYEba_4SDvR...

- Sonic Pi is built on-top of SuperCollider, but it's MUCH easier to get started with making bleeps and bloops. Sam Aaron, who originally created Overtone (a Clojure front-end for SuperCollider) created Sonic Pi initially to teach kids computer programming and music, but now it's turning into a pretty nice live-coding setup. The language is basically a DSL extension of Ruby, and although it's very elegant, I feel like it's a little nerfed in terms of a full language when compared to SCLang, so I'm sticking with the latter for now. High recommend checking it out if you're new to making music or code. https://sonic-pi.net/

- This 'Intro To Live Coding' vid from Alex McLean is great. Gives a good overview of a few fun tools out there that I won't mention here for sake of time (check out Gibber and Hydra for web-based coding things. Gibber is really slick). Alex invented Tidal Cycles, which I feel is like god-tier in terms of power and conciseness. Maybe I'll tinker with Tidal someday, but I want to start with SC.

Strange dice that it seems to mostly be c++, sponsored by 3 prominent elixir shops, with an original OSC server implementation by Joe Armstrong.

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...

There is a programming language+IDE called SonicPI. It's designed to create music by writing code. You can install the program from the lin, then ask chatGPT to generate some sonic PI code that produces some nice melody. Then just copy the code and paste it into the sonicPI program, and run it by clicking the run button. Here's a conversation for example