zynaddsubfx VS overtone

https://github.com/hselasky/midipp supports 192 TET and there are some filters, see help section, that automagically microtone the input . Then you just round to the nearest TET. The difference is not noticable. Can playback this using SYSEX on ZynAddSubFX (3.0.6) https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx

DAW: https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx

I suggest that you look into open source audio synthetizers (like https://github.com/zynaddsubfx/zynaddsubfx) to see the approach they use.

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.

Thanks. I don't know to what extend its "better-because-of-clojure" but I also found overtone https://github.com/overtone/overtone which should be good fun (though the underlying synthesizer is supercollider/C++).

You might want to look at Overtone, which is a clojure environment built on top of overtone, and which integrates with processing and a few other similar things.

https://overtone.github.io/

> I'm fluent in Python but find the use of colons is the real sticking point.

The you'd probably have hated its predecessor which was all about the parentheses: https://overtone.github.io/

It's too bad that superficial stuff like which characters you need to type is holding you back. Getting used to Ruby when you're familiar with Python is no big deal. I would just stick with it

There's a project you may find interesting: https://overtone.github.io/. Besides sound/synthesis stuff, it has https://github.com/overtone/midi-clj library, which allows you to write MIDI as lisp (Clojure, to be precise) code. Emacs has great support for Clojure programming (via Cider), and REPL-based development is perfect for writing music.