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p5.js
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JUCE
JUCE is an open-source cross-platform C++ application framework for desktop and mobile applications, including VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, LV2 and AAX audio plug-ins.
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supercollider
An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
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MuseScore
MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!
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- Supercollider
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Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser
When I last played with SuperCollider I used Overtone, that wraps everything in a Closure API. With that you use s-expressions instead of sclang to define your sounds. I am not sure what the state of Overtone is these days, but there seems to still be some activity: https://overtone.github.io/
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Algorithmic Music Generation with Python
Overtone is the state of the art if you like Lisp https://github.com/overtone/overtone
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Sndkit – a toolkit for computer music composition
https://clojure.org/guides/threading_macros
Incidentally, for making music with Clojure there's Overtone: https://github.com/overtone/overtone
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Synth wars: The story of MIDI (2023)
> Midi being an “artist” tool places it more as a medium like paint.
I’ve used MIDI “as paint”.
Written music using code to MIDI(1), and wrote “cross instrument” music, ie using my keyboard as drum machine.
But these days MIDI is chiefly an archival method for me.
Every time I touch my keyboard is recorded, is much smaller than a comparable audio recording, by design “forced fidelity” in the recording, and I am able to pipe the MIDI format through transcription software (which would be near impossible from an audio recording today).
(1) http://overtone.github.io/
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- Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure
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Lisp for audio programming
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.
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overtone/overtone is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of overtone is Clojure.
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