openmusic VS scheme-for-max

Open Music has precompiled applications for Windows/86, Linux/86, macOS 86&ARM.

https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic/releases/tag/...

Other Common Lisp applications for music, written in LispWorks:

ScoreCloud, Music Notation: https://scorecloud.com

MusicEase, Music Notation: https://www.musicease.com/

OpenMusic, Music composition with a visual programming language: https://github.com/openmusic-project/openmusic/

OM#, based on OpenMusic: https://github.com/cac-t-u-s/om-sharp

Most of these applications are available for Mac and Windows, some even for Linux.

OpusModus (mentioned in the article) now is on Macs (Intel / Apple Silicon) and an upcoming version is promised for Windows: https://opusmodus.com

For example IRCAM (French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound ) develops graphical/visual programming systems for music composition: OpenMusic is a long time project, which is Open Source, but runs only on top of LispWorks, because of its GUI capabilities. A project derived from OpenMusic is OM#, which also written on top of LispWorks. ScoreCloud is a commercial product written with LispWorks. Also OpusModus (a commercial music composition system written in Clozure CL) is currently being ported to LispWorks (mentioned by the developers): then it will be possible to run on new Macs and also on Windows.

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

The project page is here, with links to lots of documentation I've done: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

To download Scheme for Max and for tutorials, documentation, and the cookbook, visit the GitHub page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

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!

Project page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

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