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tonal reviews and mentions

• Ask HN: Tools or frameworks to build music theory games
  11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2024

  https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal does a bunch of theory stuff. I think there’s another JS library I’ve used too but I can’t think of the name.

  If he wants to generate audio, Tone.js can be a useful higher level abstraction for WebAudio.

• Tonal.js: Functional music theory lib
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Apr 2024

  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...

• What is this scale called?
  1 project | /r/musictheory | 3 May 2023

  It's not on this list, but it's a cool list to check out either way

• What is your must have npm package on any given project?
  15 projects | /r/webdev | 5 Apr 2023

  I'm working on a music project and both tonejs and tonal are incredible projects.

• Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2023

  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.)

• Scales - Practise all of them, or just a few each day?
  1 project | /r/piano | 29 Jan 2023

  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!

• I want to use this module in my code but can't figure out how.
  1 project | /r/learnjavascript | 12 Dec 2022

  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 .

• Anyone know of a music theory library for C#?
  2 projects | /r/dotnet | 23 Jul 2022

  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?
  4 projects | /r/MaxMSP | 19 Jul 2022
• Humble beginnings of my first open source npm package: The Music Builder
  1 project | /r/javascript | 20 Aug 2021

  Here's how tonal.js does it: https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal/tree/master/packages

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