TidalCycles

From the website:

Tidal Cycles (or ‘Tidal’) for short is free/open source software written in Haskell. Tidal is using SuperCollider, another open-source software, for synthesis and I/O.
Tidal Cycles allows you to make patterns with code. It includes language for describing flexible (e.g. polyphonic, polyrhythmic, generative) sequences of sounds, notes, parameters, and all kind of information.

Uses Haskell underneath and SuperCollider

Examples

Don Gorelick’s set on youtube inspired me to look into this more:

Initializing the development environment

Startup

sclang startup.scd

Then open qjackctl to hookup to the actual speaker output (why is this so?)

Shutdown

To revert audio reboot pulseaudio after shutting everything down pulseaudio --kill

Using

Open vscode (code)

Shift-ENTER to command the current line

ctrl-enter to execute the block

Ctrl-Alt-H to hush

Using

# set to 130 bpm
setcps (130/60/4)

# setup some panels
d1 $ s "[bd:1 ~] * 2"
d2 $ s "[~ hh]*2"

# silence d3
d3 $ silence

# play once
once $ s "cp cp cp"

# Pattern

hush

d1 $ s "drum" |+| n "2 3" |+| n "4 5 6"

# https://tidalcycles.org/docs/reference/cycles

hush
# https://tidalcycles.org/docs/reference/mini_notation

d1 $ s "[cp | bd(3,8) | hh:2] cp cp"
d2 $ note "[[c8*3 | c7],[c e g c6*3], [e e b [a g]]]" # s "supermandolin"

d3 $ (n "[c'maj ~ e'min g'dom7 a'min ~ g'maj]" # s "superpiano") # gain "0.8 0 0.9 0.7 1 1"

d3 $ silence

hush

Tutorials

https://tidalcycles.org/docs/patternlib/tutorials/workshop/#effects Start Tidal | Tidal Cycles