openmusic VS strudel

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.

Interesting!

Similar note-based expression can be found on TidalCycles/Strudel. although it's not valid MIDI format anymore, you can use notation like c4, f3, and make them as "pattern". Samples are also supported in the same manner:

https://strudel.cc/

And in my project Glicol, I use only numbers in the seq node. So 60 means middle C. Underscore means rest.

https://glicol.org/

TidalCycles doesn't. And you can try it online without installing anything.

https://strudel.cc/

Try evaluating `d1 $ s "bd sn"` to get a bass drum-snare drum rhythm going. Then `d1 $ s "bd*2 sn"` to kick the bass drum twice each loop instead of once. It can be extremely intuitive.

An easy way to experiment with this is via Strudel[1], a JS port that plays in-browser (annoyingly, works better with Chrome than Safari.)

[1] https://strudel.tidalcycles.org

It's recently gotten a great deal easier to play with thanks to Strudel, a JS variant.

Strudel REPL: https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/

One interesting feature of Tidalcycles is Euclidean Sequences, where various 'natural' ways of distributing X notes over Y durations are easily expressed:

It has a modular design so you can pick together different pieces to build into your project, if you're happy with AGPL: https://github.com/tidalcycles/strudel/