mercury VS SuperDirt

Compare mercury vs SuperDirt and see what are their differences.

mercury

A minimal and human-readable language and environment for the live coding of algorithmic electronic music. (by tmhglnd)
Mercury mercury-environment human-readable-language Language visuals sounds Livecoding live-coding Performance creative-coding Osc sequencing algorithmic-composition
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SuperDirt

Tidal Audio Engine (by musikinformatik)
Supercollider Haskell signal-processing sound-files live-coding
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271 502
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8.9 5.1
12 days ago 5 months ago
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GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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mercury

Posts with mentions or reviews of mercury. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-23.

SuperDirt

Posts with mentions or reviews of SuperDirt. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.
  • I made a command-line tool to assist me with writing polyrhythmic drum parts
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jun 2023
    Tidalcycles actually runs SuperCollider as its sound backend, through the SuperDirt library: https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt/
  • Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2021
    Another excellent Haskell based live-coding tool: https://tidalcycles.org/

    Even if you don't know Haskell, it is a delight to improvise electronic music with this library. It comes with its own mini-language for dealing with musical patterns and can synchronize with any instrument. Very extensible, the backend uses https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt, a SuperCollider extension for dealing with synths / samples / effects.

  • Libraries for (crossplatform) MIDI and OSC I/O?
    2 projects | /r/lisp | 10 Jan 2021
    Cl-collider is really nice. However, I’m trying to design something so that I can be free from SuperCollider one day. I already programmed a library in Python targeting SuperDirt for live-coding. The drawback is that I’m now dependant on SuperCollider for almost any kind of I/O (OSC pass through SC and out, as well as MIDI).

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mercury and SuperDirt you can also consider the following projects:

Orca - Esoteric Programming Language

FoxDot - Python driven environment for Live Coding

orca - C Multi-REST API library for Discord, Slack, Reddit, etc.

orca - Build modern community apps with React and Node.

supercollider - An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.

vim-sonic-pi - Sonic Pi plugin for (Neo)Vim

slippery-chicken - slippery chicken: algorithmic composition software in common lisp and clos

awesome-livecoding - All things livecoding

A_Gentle_Introduction_To_SuperCollider - A step-by-step tutorial for total beginners. PDF here:

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