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Top 23 Livecoding Open-Source Projects
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supercollider
An audio server, programming language, and IDE for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition.
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study-music
An "awesome music theory" kinda wiki with books, resources and courses for studying everything about music and sound
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strudel
Web-based environment for live coding algorithmic patterns, incorporating a faithful port of TidalCycles to JavaScript
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mercury
A minimal and human-readable language and environment for the live coding of algorithmic electronic music. (by tmhglnd)
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larastreamers
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cl-patterns
Library for writing patterns to generate or process (a)musical sequences of mathematically (un)related (non-)compound values in Lisp.
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megra.rs
Mégra is a mini-language to make music with variable-order markov chains and some other stochastic shenanigans.
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I have wondered what grooves it could come with using https://sonic-pi.net/
Link to the audio programming language / server they're using in the article: https://github.com/supercollider/supercollider
Project mention: Orca: Progressive Learning from Complex Explanation Traces of GPT-4 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-12
Project mention: Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03and there is more: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding
Project mention: Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-01
Project mention: 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-26I've worked on Ambient Engine and now on the Bevy engine. I totally agree with these points, very valuable. I only make some comments from my professional (audio) perspective:
We need the highlight author's affirmation of cli. Rust's tui (ratatui) is great. I used it to make Glicol-cli [1]. If you are a Linux user, you are welcome to test the music production of the code.
Speaking of game audio, I actually think rust is perfect for audio. I have also continued to develop Glicol recently, and my recent goal (starting tomorrow) is the bevy_glicol plug-in. I want to solve bevy's audio problem on the browser.
All in all, even though I've had my share of pain with ecs, I still think rust is very valuable for game and app development, maybe not multiplayer AAA, maybe practical apps.
[1] https://github.com/glicol/glicol-cli
[2] https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol
Project mention: Decker: A fantastic reincarnation of HyperCard with 1-bit graphics | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-07Note that the author also made a k interpreter [0] which has a graphical env to play around with as well.
[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
Project mention: Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03
> 9. The debugger can modify a variable while the program is running.
> 11. The debugger can modify a function while the program is running (any new calls are done to that function).
Another words: hot code reloading / swapping [1].
And I would add:
> You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time. [2]
[1] e.g. https://github.com/ddovod/jet-live, https://github.com/crosire/blink, https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/68
Project mention: Show HN: Code music in Python that generates MIDI | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-09Interesting approach. There has been much activity in recent years in live coding with a lot of interesting solutions.
> most music coding software out there is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting
Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours. There is also an algorithcmic composition language called SAL which is used in Common Music (https://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/) and Niquist (https://sourceforge.net/projects/nyquist/).
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Livecoding projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Sonic Pi | 10,531 |
| 2 | supercollider | 5,218 |
| 3 | Orca | 4,436 |
| 4 | awesome-livecoding | 2,437 |
| 5 | Tidal | 2,132 |
| 6 | glicol | 2,003 |
| 7 | study-music | 1,668 |
| 8 | Bonzomatic | 1,333 |
| 9 | CToy | 1,299 |
| 10 | ok | 576 |
| 11 | strudel | 554 |
| 12 | Pilot | 508 |
| 13 | Orca-c | 467 |
| 14 | jet-live | 400 |
| 15 | mercury | 272 |
| 16 | larastreamers | 226 |
| 17 | melrose | 179 |
| 18 | cl-patterns | 73 |
| 19 | limut | 56 |
| 20 | megra.rs | 54 |
| 21 | tinyspec-cling | 34 |
| 22 | barbara | 33 |
| 23 | stenophone | 32 |
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