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Tonal.js: Functional music theory lib
They're using objects, including arrays [1], so I think they would have been more precise to say that they're using objects and arrays as simple data structures rather than using OO features like inheritance and mutation.
[1] https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal/blob/main/packages/chord/in...
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What is this scale called?
It's not on this list, but it's a cool list to check out either way
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What is your must have npm package on any given project?
I'm working on a music project and both tonejs and tonal are incredible projects.
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Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface
Regarding the "Music Theory library" aspect, note that the CLI tool demonstrates use of the underlying Ruby library which has documentation here:
* https://github.com/pedrozath/coltrane/wiki/Core-music-theory...
Additionally, the author wrote a post about the motivation for creating the library but it's a little difficult to find via the (now broken) link in the README, so here is a direct link to the archived page on the Wayback Machine:
* https://web.archive.org/web/20170714063625/https://medium.co...
If anyone is interested in a similar music theory library for Javascript[0] I've had some success with this:
* Tonal / Tonal.js https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal
[0] Or, in a pinch, even with a Godot 4 web export as I did for my (very incomplete) "AI and Games" Game Jam entry: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/the-conductor (For reasons far too convoluted to go into now.)
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Scales - Practise all of them, or just a few each day?
There are many hundreds of scale types, here's a list of many of them and that's just a single key. Let's say there's 200 scales times 12 for each key, that's 2400 times up and down the piano. There are actually much more than 200 scales though!
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I want to use this module in my code but can't figure out how.
I found a module that is perfect for what I'm trying to create, (a simple piano that you can select keys on to find out which chord it gives), and am trying to use https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal .
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Anyone know of a music theory library for C#?
Agree with the representation, you can really bury yourself in complexity if you're not careful. Have you taken a look at any of the JS libraries like tonal or MusicTheoryJS?
- Max 4 Live, or standalone Max 8?
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Humble beginnings of my first open source npm package: The Music Builder
Here's how tonal.js does it: https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal/tree/master/packages
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Do you want to learn music theory?
For the music theory stuff I'm using TonalJS along with my own extensions
scheme-for-max
- Music for Programming
- Learn How to Build Your Own Max for Live Devices
- MAX lessons
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Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
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
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Need explanation for MIDI
The project page is here, with links to lots of documentation I've done: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
- Controlling parameters with audio?
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Processing audio buffers with Scheme for Max (cookbook and tutorial)
To download Scheme for Max and for tutorials, documentation, and the cookbook, visit the GitHub page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
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The Janet Language
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!
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Which coding language to start with?
Project page: https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max
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Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?
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
What are some alternatives?
remeda - A utility library for JavaScript and TypeScript.
janet - A dynamic language and bytecode vm
html-midi-player - 🎹 Play and display MIDI files on the web
Rack - The virtual Eurorack studio
octave-compass - A tool for exploring musical scales and chords
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth [Moved to: https://github.com/BespokeSynth/BespokeSynth]
musescore-theory-plugins - A collection of MuseScore plugins that check species counterpoint, 4-part chorales, intervals, and chords and can automatically create interval and chord ID worksheets.
score - ossia score, an interactive sequencer for the intermedia arts
minimoon - Cross platform music player.
BespokeSynth - Software modular synth
iter-ops-extras - Custom operators for iter-ops
pyo - Python DSP module