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Off topic but related: anyone have examples of novel things to play with in electronic music / generative? I recently got an itch to experiment with some analog

Off topic but related: anyone have examples of novel things to play with in electronic music / generative? I recently got an itch to experiment with some analog synths and some hardware / software hacking to make music. Novel or just... fun!

jcelerier 6y ago
if you're looking for software hacking, any new contributor on https://github.com/ossia/score https://github.com/ossia/score would be very welcome :p
- dfischer 6y ago
  I shall check it out. Thanks! Anything you recommend I check out to feel the magic of it?
  - jcelerier 6y ago
    there's a good overview of what it is about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH92s7iom0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH92s7iom0
jacquesm 6y ago
In increasing range of expense Tone.js; teenage engineering boards, ebay for modular synth modules. The latter can bankrupt you easily ;)
totetsu 6y ago
maybe https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca https://sonic-pi.net/ https://sonic-pi.net/ https://teenage.engineering/products/po https://teenage.engineering/products/po
- raytracer 6y ago
  +1 for Orca. Orca is live coding environment / procedural music playground. This video gives an overview of what it is. https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE
  - dfischer 6y ago
    Orca is beautiful. I have a secret crush on 100rabits work. Such beautiful and elegant synthesis of ideas to material.
pmoriarty 6y ago
Check out: - r/musicprogramming [1] - #opensourcemusicians on the Freenode IRC network [2] - VCV Rack [3] - Supercollider [4] - Overtone [5] - ChucK [6] - Awesome live-coding [7] - Muffwiggler Forum [8] [1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming/ https://old.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming/ [2] - https://freenode.net/ https://freenode.net/ [3] - https://vcvrack.com/ https://vcvrack.com/ [4] - https://supercollider.github.io/ https://supercollider.github.io/ [5] - https://github.com/overtone/overtone https://github.com/overtone/overtone [6] - https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ [7] - https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music [8] - https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/
- dfischer 6y ago
  Thank you so much for such a thoughtful reply.
- luluganeta 6y ago
  Thank you for such a complete list. I'd suggest TidalCycles (https://tidalcycles.org https://tidalcycles.org) as an appropriate addition. It's a particularly powerful tool to make music/sound using simple code, running on top of SuperCollider. The entry barrier is rather low, and the tool's author is running a very good and accessible online course right now.
- aasasd 6y ago
  Modular synths seem to be in vogue lately, both in hardware and in software like VCV Rack. Though I'm told that this started some years ago, possibly in the 2000s—maybe it's just that I finally figured out how it's supposed to work, with the Android daw Caustic. The app Hexen looks particularly impressive, but haven't tried it yet.
  - munificent 6y ago
    > possibly in the 2000s Late 90s. It was Dieter Döpfer's creation of the eurorack standard that really kicked off the modular synth revival (though of course with anything, a lot of stuff was in the air and Döpfer was also in the right place at the right time).
thdrdt 6y ago
https://puredata.info/ https://puredata.info/ can also be added to the list. Visual programming audio and video. Maybe you also like this talk of Andrew Sorensen on live coding music for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c
tpm 6y ago
Also check out lines - llllllll.co
scarecrowbob 6y ago
I've had a lot of different synths in my life. Lartely, I've had a whole lot of fun lately just playing with a single groovebox, specifically a Novation Circuit. Although I have had much more complex rigs (I've built several eurorack modules from kits, and owned several keyboards, groove boxes, and other tools), just having a super simple little box and trying to get as much as I can out of it has been a useful exercise of the last two months. If the goal is to "make music", I'd probably start with a groove box. If the goal is to have fun making weird noises, I'd probably get either a Moog Mother or a Behringer Neutron... both of those are kind of gentle introductions to modular synths.
- dfischer 6y ago
  I just picked up two Teenage Engineering synths based on the reviews of unique UX and just having fun. I was really eyeing the Moog subharmonicon and or drummer. Would either of those compliment well with Teenage Eng op-1 and op-z?
  - scarecrowbob 6y ago
    To be honest, if were just starting out with those two instruments, I personally just focus on those two instruments and try to get to where I can do complete performances on them. They seem like pretty deep pieces of equipment, and as I get older I find myself enjoying the limitations of specific device and getting around them.. That said, both subharmonicon and drummer feel like they would be really fun, though :D I would havea hard time producing a complete work of music with any of the Moog stuff by itself. They are all great intros into modular synth though.
    - dfischer 6y ago
      Yeah, I just want to have fun. I know it's a lot already but I crave that deep sound. Techno go boom. lol
      - scarecrowbob 6y ago
        That's wholly relatable.

jcelerier 6y ago

if you're looking for software hacking, any new contributor on https://github.com/ossia/score https://github.com/ossia/score would be very welcome :p

dfischer 6y ago
I shall check it out. Thanks! Anything you recommend I check out to feel the magic of it?
- jcelerier 6y ago
  there's a good overview of what it is about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH92s7iom0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPH92s7iom0

jacquesm 6y ago

In increasing range of expense Tone.js; teenage engineering boards, ebay for modular synth modules. The latter can bankrupt you easily ;)

totetsu 6y ago

maybe https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca https://esolangs.org/wiki/Orca https://sonic-pi.net/ https://sonic-pi.net/ https://teenage.engineering/products/po https://teenage.engineering/products/po

raytracer 6y ago
+1 for Orca. Orca is live coding environment / procedural music playground. This video gives an overview of what it is. https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE https://youtu.be/RaI_TuISSJE
- dfischer 6y ago
  Orca is beautiful. I have a secret crush on 100rabits work. Such beautiful and elegant synthesis of ideas to material.

pmoriarty 6y ago

Check out: - r/musicprogramming [1] - #opensourcemusicians on the Freenode IRC network [2] - VCV Rack [3] - Supercollider [4] - Overtone [5] - ChucK [6] - Awesome live-coding [7] - Muffwiggler Forum [8] [1] - https://old.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming/ https://old.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming/ [2] - https://freenode.net/ https://freenode.net/ [3] - https://vcvrack.com/ https://vcvrack.com/ [4] - https://supercollider.github.io/ https://supercollider.github.io/ [5] - https://github.com/overtone/overtone https://github.com/overtone/overtone [6] - https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ https://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ [7] - https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music https://github.com/pjagielski/awesome-live-coding-music [8] - https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/ https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/

dfischer 6y ago
Thank you so much for such a thoughtful reply.
luluganeta 6y ago
Thank you for such a complete list. I'd suggest TidalCycles (https://tidalcycles.org https://tidalcycles.org) as an appropriate addition. It's a particularly powerful tool to make music/sound using simple code, running on top of SuperCollider. The entry barrier is rather low, and the tool's author is running a very good and accessible online course right now.
aasasd 6y ago
Modular synths seem to be in vogue lately, both in hardware and in software like VCV Rack. Though I'm told that this started some years ago, possibly in the 2000s—maybe it's just that I finally figured out how it's supposed to work, with the Android daw Caustic. The app Hexen looks particularly impressive, but haven't tried it yet.
- munificent 6y ago
  > possibly in the 2000s Late 90s. It was Dieter Döpfer's creation of the eurorack standard that really kicked off the modular synth revival (though of course with anything, a lot of stuff was in the air and Döpfer was also in the right place at the right time).

thdrdt 6y ago

https://puredata.info/ https://puredata.info/ can also be added to the list. Visual programming audio and video. Maybe you also like this talk of Andrew Sorensen on live coding music for inspiration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1FSsUV-8c

tpm 6y ago

Also check out lines - llllllll.co

scarecrowbob 6y ago

I've had a lot of different synths in my life. Lartely, I've had a whole lot of fun lately just playing with a single groovebox, specifically a Novation Circuit. Although I have had much more complex rigs (I've built several eurorack modules from kits, and owned several keyboards, groove boxes, and other tools), just having a super simple little box and trying to get as much as I can out of it has been a useful exercise of the last two months. If the goal is to "make music", I'd probably start with a groove box. If the goal is to have fun making weird noises, I'd probably get either a Moog Mother or a Behringer Neutron... both of those are kind of gentle introductions to modular synths.

dfischer 6y ago
I just picked up two Teenage Engineering synths based on the reviews of unique UX and just having fun. I was really eyeing the Moog subharmonicon and or drummer. Would either of those compliment well with Teenage Eng op-1 and op-z?
- scarecrowbob 6y ago
  To be honest, if were just starting out with those two instruments, I personally just focus on those two instruments and try to get to where I can do complete performances on them. They seem like pretty deep pieces of equipment, and as I get older I find myself enjoying the limitations of specific device and getting around them.. That said, both subharmonicon and drummer feel like they would be really fun, though :D I would havea hard time producing a complete work of music with any of the Moog stuff by itself. They are all great intros into modular synth though.
  - dfischer 6y ago
    Yeah, I just want to have fun. I know it's a lot already but I crave that deep sound. Techno go boom. lol
    - scarecrowbob 6y ago
      That's wholly relatable.