overtone VS ThinkDSP

When I last played with SuperCollider I used Overtone, that wraps everything in a Closure API. With that you use s-expressions instead of sclang to define your sounds. I am not sure what the state of Overtone is these days, but there seems to still be some activity: https://overtone.github.io/

Overtone is the state of the art if you like Lisp https://github.com/overtone/overtone

https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros

Incidentally, for making music with Clojure there's Overtone: https://github.com/overtone/overtone

> Midi being an “artist” tool places it more as a medium like paint.

I’ve used MIDI “as paint”.

Written music using code to MIDI(1), and wrote “cross instrument” music, ie using my keyboard as drum machine.

But these days MIDI is chiefly an archival method for me.

Every time I touch my keyboard is recorded, is much smaller than a comparable audio recording, by design “forced fidelity” in the recording, and I am able to pipe the MIDI format through transcription software (which would be near impossible from an audio recording today).

(1) http://overtone.github.io/

I've never actually used it myself. I've preferred systems that talk to SuperCollider, like overtone, because it's already rock solid and has lots of good DSP built in.

There's a free book online called Think DSP that teaches you how to design and visualize filters in Python: https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/

https://greenteapress.com/wp/think-dsp/

It can be bought, but is available for free. Code is also available via GitHub. It uses Python and Jupyter.

"The premise of this book (and the other books in the Think X series) is that if you know how to program, you can use that skill to learn other things. I am writing this book because I think the conventional approach to digital signal processing is backward: most books (and the classes that use them) present the material bottom-up, starting with mathematical abstractions like phasors."

How about Think DSP: Digital Signal Processing in Python - https://github.com/AllenDowney/ThinkDSP