Overtone

#1

Post by wglb » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 9:51 PM UTC

Overtone
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Re: Overtone

#2

Post by jcfrei » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 10:50 PM UTC

here's the project website: http://overtone.github.com/

Re: Overtone

#3

Post by mcav » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 10:58 PM UTC

Overtone looks fantastic, and I've been meaning to really look into it for a while now. It seems to be an active project with a lot of momentum. I was writing something similar in Clojure, but more directly musically focused rather than on sound synths, before I found overtone. I tried installing it once a while ago, but had trouble getting SuperCollider to install and work with overtone.

Are there any overtone-related gatherings in the bay area?

Re: Overtone

#4

Post by jianshen » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 11:01 PM UTC

This is what Hollywood thinks most coding is like in the world. One shot, no bugs and pure creation. All in a highly customized and beautifully responsive editing environment.

Seriously though, thanks for posting this. I think music coders deserve special attention because they mix creativity and logic together so well.

Re: Overtone

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Post by wylie » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 11:31 PM UTC

I'm so glad that somebody built a better front-end for SuperCollider. It's badly in need of a better guide and tutorial for new users, and this seems like an excellent way to go about it.

Re: Overtone

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Post by rorrr » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 11:47 PM UTC

It was amazing to watch him write the flawless LISP code.

The project itself is interesting, but very niche.

Re: Overtone

#7

Post by muyuu » Sat, Oct 08, 2011, 11:51 PM UTC

If you like this you may want to check Fluxus.

http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/ http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/projects-using-fluxus/

And impromptu: http://impromptu.moso.com.au/

Re: Overtone

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 09, 2011, 12:00 AM UTC

jianshen wrote: post #4

This is what Hollywood thinks most coding is like in the world. One shot, no bugs and pure creation. All in a highly customized and beautifully responsive editing environment. Seriously though, thanks for posting this. I think music coders deserve special attention because they mix creativity and logic together so well.

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Re: Overtone

#9

Post by Raphael » Sun, Oct 09, 2011, 12:01 AM UTC

Interesting how his command line glows and shows CRT-like distortions. Is that actually how it looks, or is that post-processing applied to the video?

Re: Overtone

#10

Post by eegilbert » Sun, Oct 09, 2011, 12:07 AM UTC

This is great. Thank you. If you're interested in this stuff, also take a look at ChucK, a project out of Princeton's CS & Music departments. I've been extremely happy with its results when generating backgrounds for videos, for instance.

http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu