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Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

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Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

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Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

#3

Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

I've been able to run SuperCollider on PopOS (an Ubuntu derived distro) with no problems, FWIW. Have you tried SC at all during your explorations?

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

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Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

Might not be what you're looking for and also not FOSS but you could look into Bitwig

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

#5

Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

SuperCollider, Csound, ChucK and Tidal all work on Linux if you want something you can easily install.

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

#6

Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

Supercollider, faust, chuck, csound, pure data, common music, common lisp music, and nyquist all work on Linux. Most of the open source music programming languages make Linux a high priority!

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

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Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

You should try Strudel. All you need is a web browser. https://strudel.tidalcycles.org/

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

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What are the chances of getting this to compile on linux? I have no idea about how to deal with an Xcode project or have enough C++ knowledge to know if this can even be compiled on linux. CoreFoundation.h looks to be OSX? and on my quick glance that looks to be the main hurdle but that is as much as I can say.

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

#9

Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

Perhaps you should try installing kxstudio, it is a collection of packages and all the configuration stuff for tuning Ubuntu or Debian for audio work. I have never used it but many seem to swear by it and I believe it takes care of setting up and configuring any of the common synthesis DSLs like SC, pd and Csound. Perhaps someone else can fill in the massive gaps I left.

Re: Sound As Pure Form: Music Language Inspired by Supercollider, APL, and Forth

#10

Any chance of a flatpak (or some form of Linux Binary) for this? I've been wanting to play around with Music Programming for ages, but none of the options I looked at play well with Ubuntu. SonicPi in particular didn't run no matter what I did, I had to dualboot into Windows to get it working :'(

I've been able to run SuperCollider on PopOS (an Ubuntu derived distro) with no problems, FWIW. Have you tried SC at all during your explorations?

I couldn't get super collider to work, but I'm getting the impression that something may just be wrong with my install based on the replies I've gotten.
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