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It reminds me of VirtualDub's scripting language, which is meant for videos but could do audio, if I recall correctly. It's been about half a decade since I use

by acbart 12y ago

It reminds me of VirtualDub's scripting language, which is meant for videos but could do audio, if I recall correctly. It's been about half a decade since I used it, though...

meowface 12y ago
What do professional music producers and mixers use? I imagine GUI-type mixing software is still the most popular, but I feel like there must be some experimental musicians out there producing music by fuzzing different parameters in some kind of scripting or configuration language. If there actually aren't, I kind of feel like there should be.
- erikschoster 12y ago
  There are many DSLs for music! Here are a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_programming_language Many of which are inspired by or even directly based on Max Matthew's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N
  - meowface 12y ago
    Thanks, these are really cool. These were the kinds of things I had in mind. I'm tempted to experiment with one myself, but my music skills and knowledge are non-existent. And I'm pretty sure those are much more essential than programming skills when using these languages.
    - jholman 12y ago
      That doesn't sound like a reason to avoid experimenting. If you're tempted to experiment, jump in! Be bold!
- one-more-minute 12y ago
  I've seen some really cool stuff being done with Overtone: http://overtone.github.io/ http://overtone.github.io/
  - meowface 12y ago
    This is awesome, thanks. edit: Just found this example song apparently coded live in Overtone: https://soundcloud.com/meta-ex/spiked-with-recursive-dreams https://soundcloud.com/meta-ex/spiked-with-recursive-dreams Quite amazing.
- zwegner 12y ago
  I have a simple Python library[0] for direct audio synthesis, with oscillators, filters, various other effects, MIDI input, plus some basic building blocks for algorithmic music construction. It pretty much needs PyPy to provide samples fast enough for real-time audio, but even PyPy's too slow sometimes. Not too much documentation right now, and there's barely any example usage. Think it's about time to remedy that! I have plans for an open-source album created with it, but it's just an idea at this point. [0] https://github.com/zwegner/undulance https://github.com/zwegner/undulance
  - erikschoster 12y ago
    Very cool to see so many python music projects here! I suppose I'll add mine, which is also sorely lacking in documentation and is very much in a pre-release state: https://github.com/hecanjog/pippi https://github.com/hecanjog/pippi I've been dogfooding it for my own music since I started working on it, here's a recent-ish album made with it: http://music.hecanjog.com/album/solos-for-unattended-computer-volume-one http://music.hecanjog.com/album/solos-for-unattended-compute...

by acbart 12y ago

It reminds me of VirtualDub's scripting language, which is meant for videos but could do audio, if I recall correctly. It's been about half a decade since I used it, though...

meowface 12y ago

What do professional music producers and mixers use? I imagine GUI-type mixing software is still the most popular, but I feel like there must be some experimental musicians out there producing music by fuzzing different parameters in some kind of scripting or configuration language. If there actually aren't, I kind of feel like there should be.

erikschoster 12y ago
There are many DSLs for music! Here are a few: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_programming_language Many of which are inspired by or even directly based on Max Matthew's work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N
- meowface 12y ago
  Thanks, these are really cool. These were the kinds of things I had in mind. I'm tempted to experiment with one myself, but my music skills and knowledge are non-existent. And I'm pretty sure those are much more essential than programming skills when using these languages.
  - jholman 12y ago
    That doesn't sound like a reason to avoid experimenting. If you're tempted to experiment, jump in! Be bold!
one-more-minute 12y ago
I've seen some really cool stuff being done with Overtone: http://overtone.github.io/ http://overtone.github.io/
- meowface 12y ago
  This is awesome, thanks. edit: Just found this example song apparently coded live in Overtone: https://soundcloud.com/meta-ex/spiked-with-recursive-dreams https://soundcloud.com/meta-ex/spiked-with-recursive-dreams Quite amazing.
zwegner 12y ago
I have a simple Python library[0] for direct audio synthesis, with oscillators, filters, various other effects, MIDI input, plus some basic building blocks for algorithmic music construction. It pretty much needs PyPy to provide samples fast enough for real-time audio, but even PyPy's too slow sometimes. Not too much documentation right now, and there's barely any example usage. Think it's about time to remedy that! I have plans for an open-source album created with it, but it's just an idea at this point. [0] https://github.com/zwegner/undulance https://github.com/zwegner/undulance
- erikschoster 12y ago
  Very cool to see so many python music projects here! I suppose I'll add mine, which is also sorely lacking in documentation and is very much in a pre-release state: https://github.com/hecanjog/pippi https://github.com/hecanjog/pippi I've been dogfooding it for my own music since I started working on it, here's a recent-ish album made with it: http://music.hecanjog.com/album/solos-for-unattended-computer-volume-one http://music.hecanjog.com/album/solos-for-unattended-compute...