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For those so inclined, that want to play with synth in some more programmatic way, there is a lisp dialect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_(programming_l

by f1shy 2y ago

For those so inclined, that want to play with synth in some more programmatic way, there is a lisp dialect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_(programming_language)) for it.

harvodex 2y ago
Nyquist is super ancient. The links don't even work anymore on CMU. Common Music might still work but I can't imagine bothering with Nyquist. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ There is just not much reason to not use SuperCollider or Csound instead of these though. Edit: I did just find Nyquist has been rolled into Audacity scripting that sounds pretty cool https://audionyq.com/ https://audionyq.com/
- f1shy 2y ago
  Fun. Fact: that is how I learned about nyquist not long ago. I posted that one, and not others, because it is a lisp dialect, and this community is typically inclined to lisp in a more than average %.
tosmatos 2y ago
There's also stuff like Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/ https://sonic-pi.net/) and most things live coding related, but I found that I don't really like that approach even though I love synths and programming. For some reason I don't think they go together well. But some people are really good with that and it's fascinating
- diggan 2y ago
  Yes, I feel the same way, but then I started making music to get away from the computer, rather than finding even more things to spend time on with the computer, maybe that's why.
kaoD 2y ago
Similar to this, a while ago I made this online playground (Lambda Musika) where you can program sound realtime in your browser (using JS) in a functional-ish way: https://lambda.cuesta.dev/ https://lambda.cuesta.dev/ (repo: https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/lambda-musika https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/lambda-musika) -- check out the examples on the bottom toolbar's blue button. The basic idea is you write a function `t => [l, r]` where `t` is time and `l`, `r` are output samples for the left and right channels in `[-1, 1]` range. You can think of it like ShaderToy but for sound synthesis. It includes a small utility library but it's meant to be just a few helper functions instead of a full-fledged framework like SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, et al. I.e. it's still sample-oriented instead of module-oriented. E.g. in Sonic Pi you script modules, their parameters, and how they connect with each other, while Lambda Musika is all about outputting samples of a waveform. It's very barebones -- I'd love to get some time to upgrade this to Monaco editor and add TS, intellisense, etc. -- and possibly buggy, but I still find myself coming from time to have some fun with it.
SushiHippie 2y ago
There is also glicol, for example: https://glicol.org/demo#themodel https://glicol.org/demo#themodel Press start and after some time edit line 14 and press update
PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago
There are many, many more languages for playing around with audio (and video) synthesis than that. The domain is typically called livecoding. Here's a good list of languages for that: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding

by f1shy 2y ago

harvodex 2y ago

Nyquist is super ancient. The links don't even work anymore on CMU. Common Music might still work but I can't imagine bothering with Nyquist. https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/clm/ There is just not much reason to not use SuperCollider or Csound instead of these though. Edit: I did just find Nyquist has been rolled into Audacity scripting that sounds pretty cool https://audionyq.com/ https://audionyq.com/

f1shy 2y ago
Fun. Fact: that is how I learned about nyquist not long ago. I posted that one, and not others, because it is a lisp dialect, and this community is typically inclined to lisp in a more than average %.

tosmatos 2y ago

There's also stuff like Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/ https://sonic-pi.net/) and most things live coding related, but I found that I don't really like that approach even though I love synths and programming. For some reason I don't think they go together well. But some people are really good with that and it's fascinating

diggan 2y ago
Yes, I feel the same way, but then I started making music to get away from the computer, rather than finding even more things to spend time on with the computer, maybe that's why.

kaoD 2y ago

Similar to this, a while ago I made this online playground (Lambda Musika) where you can program sound realtime in your browser (using JS) in a functional-ish way: https://lambda.cuesta.dev/ https://lambda.cuesta.dev/ (repo: https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/lambda-musika https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/lambda-musika) -- check out the examples on the bottom toolbar's blue button. The basic idea is you write a function `t => [l, r]` where `t` is time and `l`, `r` are output samples for the left and right channels in `[-1, 1]` range. You can think of it like ShaderToy but for sound synthesis. It includes a small utility library but it's meant to be just a few helper functions instead of a full-fledged framework like SuperCollider, Sonic Pi, et al. I.e. it's still sample-oriented instead of module-oriented. E.g. in Sonic Pi you script modules, their parameters, and how they connect with each other, while Lambda Musika is all about outputting samples of a waveform. It's very barebones -- I'd love to get some time to upgrade this to Monaco editor and add TS, intellisense, etc. -- and possibly buggy, but I still find myself coming from time to have some fun with it.

SushiHippie 2y ago

There is also glicol, for example: https://glicol.org/demo#themodel https://glicol.org/demo#themodel Press start and after some time edit line 14 and press update

PaulDavisThe1st 2y ago

There are many, many more languages for playing around with audio (and video) synthesis than that. The domain is typically called livecoding. Here's a good list of languages for that: https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding https://github.com/toplap/awesome-livecoding