How are things going with Sonic Pi?[1] I have lots of fond memories and don't remember there being many strongly popular alternatives some years ago... though maybe I was living under a rock (..and roll).
Feels like more and more of these sorts of things are popping up. For example there's TidalCycles which is a Haskell version of the idea, which also exists as https://strudel.cc/ which is I believe a webasm version of it.
Really? Color me corrected I only ran into TC after SonicPi.
Though this entire discussion reminds me I need to fix my TidalCycles setup, had it working on Linux with vscode but I tried it out again a month or two ago and it wasn't playing anymore.
Co-creator (with Claude) here - thanks for the suggestions! I will be visiting it again in the near future.
Since first making it live I have added an AI connector but unfortunately have managed to break the server I had proxying to an LLM. I'll try and fix next session.
Would be cool if I could somehow constrain a chord to a key then enumerate the scale degrees that I want so I can make some real funky sounds that don't fit the standard Chord Qualities.
I did study Prolog in a past life but it never really stuck. It was vibe coded but I spent a lot of time planning prompts - I've had to deal with Claude's style (cruft explosion) in other projects, so I had my eyes open on this one.
https://strudel.cc/
https://larkob.github.io/strudel/tutorial/
I've seen some cool demos on YouTube from SwitchAngel.
- Strudel, TidalCycles and FoxDot are temporal-first, designed for live performance, with code rewritten on the fly.
- Dogalog is a constraints-solving composition system, for offline use.
[1]: https://sonic-pi.net/
Though this entire discussion reminds me I need to fix my TidalCycles setup, had it working on Linux with vscode but I tried it out again a month or two ago and it wasn't playing anymore.
Since first making it live I have added an AI connector but unfortunately have managed to break the server I had proxying to an LLM. I'll try and fix next session.
Would be cool if I could somehow constrain a chord to a key then enumerate the scale degrees that I want so I can make some real funky sounds that don't fit the standard Chord Qualities.