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Sonic Pi
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textbeat
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textbeat VS midica - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 12 Aug 2023
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[P] I built a chatbot that lets you talk to any Github repository
I tried it on textbeat which is in python and it wasn't understanding too much, with the exception of how the callstack worked in the parser. My questions may have been too usage-specific and not enough about the internals but I used up all my free usage credits so I couldn't continue.
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Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface
My text-based music sequencer has some music theory support and it also has a REPL:
https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat
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Pico8 Music Synthesizer
I haven't worked on it in a while, but you might like textbeat (https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat). It's a midi tracker and REPL that lets you type in music theory-like terminology and plays it. It's nowhere near a modern DAW but it's cool for tinkering and learning.
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Anyone doing larger scale code-based algorithmic pieces with Bitwig?
I've used Bitwig as a plugin host for textbeat before and it was quite fun. Textbeat is a project of mine that lets you write music in "plain text" with notation for chords, scales, and articulations. I haven't worked on it in a while though.
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Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition
I love these text-based languages for music composition. Its something that is approaching a gap in music composition in real-life vs via computer. In real-life you can tell your bandmates to "just play a I V IV in C" and they get it. But we are still not quite at a place where we can tell a computer that exact phrase and get something useful. I love how close these text-based languages are getting though!
I've actually made my own musical language too - called miti [1], which is just one of many others including textbeat [2], foxdot [3], sonic-pi [4], chuck [5], and melrose [6]. Each has their own goals and capabilities.
- [1] https://github.com/schollz/miti
- [2] https://github.com/flipcoder/textbeat
- [3] https://foxdot.org/
- [4] https://sonic-pi.net/
- [5] https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
- [6] https://github.com/emicklei/melrose
- What's the name of this audio editor? It's heavily keyboard driven like a vi for audio editing?
Sonic Pi
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Anyone else using ChatGPT to make music?
I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/
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I Need to Grow Away from These Roots
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.
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History of the Web - Part 1
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.
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Genuary 2024: Generative Art / Creative Coding Month
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.
- Web FM synthesizer made with HTML5
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Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure
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...
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I really got traumatized
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
- Como encontrar tema de tcc em ciência da computação?
- كورس sound engineer
- Annotated demo of basic capabilities of my rototem audio tool
What are some alternatives?
THIRTY-DOLLAR-HAIRCUT-GENERATOR - 30 dollar haircut website MIDI converter - Using MIDIs, QUICKLY generate a chart for the "DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR HAIRCUT" website. The site's by GDcolon, if you need to search it up.
supercollider - An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
alda - A music programming language for musicians. :notes:
FoxDot - Python driven environment for Live Coding
txt_book - Standard format for ebooks in plain txt files. Including book metadata and bookmarking.
soundtouch-android - Android bindings for SoundTouch lib, focused on size optimization and real-time processing.
mido - MIDI Objects for Python
overtone - Collaborative Programmable Music
pathfinder.vim - Vim plugin to suggest better movements
Coltrane - 🎹🎸A music theory library with a command-line interface
Orca - Esoteric Programming Language
Black candy - A self hosted music streaming server