tune VS Tidal

I use tune-cli (https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/tune-cli) to play microtonal scales on my non-microtonal Fantom-X8. tune-cli can retune almost any synth via MIDI message injection but it needs to be started as a separate program since it is not a VST plugin.

I developed tune-cli (https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/tune-cli) which is also able to convert Scala to MTS. It can even do it in a live-dispatching mode giving you access to more than 12 notes per octave without any underwater / chipmunk effect.

Very excited to see this. It's very much a tool I would use, excited to give it a spin after work tonight. I also look forward to reading the code.

Other cool music tools I've seen implemented in rust:

* glicol - https://glicol.org/

* tune - https://github.com/Woyten/tune

A while back I wanted to make some tools to aid in composition and was using rust. Very partially baked, but a fun pet project to learn the language with. Generated Just Intonation pitch lattices based on my research of Ben Johnston's compositional approach. https://github.com/jcpst/johnston

Hi, thanks for your comment! The GitHub repo including the source code, documentation and links to some demo videos can be found here: https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/microwave

To download the newest release and learn more about its features, visit https://github.com/Woyten/tune/releases/tag/microwave-0.35.0.

Source code: https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/microwave

If you want to get started really quick and only need live playback functions also try out my own project: https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/microwave

tune: A library with mature support for pitch calculations, SCL files, KBM files, MIDI Tuning Standard and live retuning

I wrote a software https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/tune-cli that can receive standard (single- or multi-channel) MIDI in events and convert them to microtonal multi-channel MIDI events which should be understandable by most synthesizers. On top of that In wrote a graphical user interface https://github.com/Woyten/tune/tree/master/microwave which also comes with a built-in modular synth engine and soundfont renderer. I am currently working on migrating the UI to a modern 3D engine for better visualizations like keyboards and a Lumatone. IOW the project is still actively developed by me. Let me know if you think those apps could be useful for you and if you have questions about how to use them.

My own tools tune-cli and microwave which I use for my compositions both support a variety of tuning methods including retuning via MIDI fine-tuning messages.

So you’re wondering what would making music with code look like? The tools I’m familiar with are TidalCycles, Sonic Pi, and SuperCollider. I’m having a hard time describing what it’s like to make music with tools like these so here’s a video of a performance. One person is live coding the music and the other is live coding the visuals. I think it’s super cool how the music is improvised and built over time by layering commands. Some keywords you could search to see more examples would be Algorave and Livecoding.

https://tidalcycles.org/ is another great example, parsing patterns of text and printing live music.

For sound live coding/algorave sonic pi and tidal cycles are great, both based on supercollider.

I don't know the alternatives but I'm a big fan of https://tidalcycles.org/. People really do crazy things, check out the videos on the front page.

I love when 2 DJs live-code together (on the same document! Editing each other's loops) or when a VJ live-codes some visuals in reaction to the DJ live-coding the music.

If you're interested in ChuCK, there's also Pure Data (a FOSS cousin of the commercial Max/MSP) and SuperCollider and a lot of live coding algorave sorta music things are built on top of SuperCollider like TidalCycles so you can execute lines of code live via a REPL or evaluating blocks of code in a document and generate beats in realtime.

Tidal Cycles! https://tidalcycles.org/

As layer8 mentioned, it is technically Haskell but more specifically a DSL and environment for live coding music.

Pretty fun to play around with!

After digging deeper, I've found TidalCycles tidalcycles.org and that's my favorite Livecoding software. Now you can start programming music without any cost.

The code written in this regard can be found here. My contributions focused on designing, implementing and integrating the Sequence module with the help of the Context module.