Overtone Reviews and details

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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... - Source: Hacker News / 12 days ago

• Music Programming for Java and JVM Languages

  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/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Sonic Pi – The Live Coding Music Synth for Everyone

  > 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. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Can I create an application to help me work out my drums rudiments in emacs

  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. Source: over 1 year ago

• Racket for Computer Music?

  Overtone, in clojure and using the SuperCollider engine. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Code reacting to sound LIVE

  Https://overtone.github.io/ (this project integrates with Processing for visualization). Source: about 2 years ago

• Bespoke Synth 1.0 – open-source software modular synthesizer

  If you like Haskell you might like Tidal Cycles[1] and if you like Clojure you might like Overtone[2]. [1] https://tidalcycles.org/ [2] https://overtone.github.io/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago