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Re: Live coding is great fun

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Post by gagege » Wed, May 14, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

isomorph wrote: post #9

gagege wrote: post #2

I'm just starting to get into this, and yes, it is a ton of fun. I started out using Tidal, now I'm moving onto Overtone (a Clojure library for making music) because it's more about synths and scales than Tidal, which is more about loops and samples. Both of them are great though. Whichever you get into just depends on what you want to do. Overtone integrates with midi really well too.

How did you learn Overtone? I've used Emacs a bit but never Clojure. How would you recommend getting started?

I just read through the Overtone docs on Github. I've been using Light Table for my IDE. I'm still faster with that than I am with emacs.

Edit: If you just want to basics, this should work for you: http://seabre.github.io/blog/2013/08/31/a-simple-livecoding-...

Re: Live coding is great fun

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Post by gagege » Wed, May 14, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

melloclello wrote: post #7

gagege wrote: post #2

I'm just starting to get into this, and yes, it is a ton of fun. I started out using Tidal, now I'm moving onto Overtone (a Clojure library for making music) because it's more about synths and scales than Tidal, which is more about loops and samples. Both of them are great though. Whichever you get into just depends on what you want to do. Overtone integrates with midi really well too.

I've been very keen on getting into Overtone for some time now, what kinds of stuff are you doing with it?

Nothing much yet. Still learning how to do what I want.

Re: Live coding is great fun

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Post by codeoclock » Wed, May 14, 2014, 7:21 PM UTC

Peaker wrote: post #3

> In fact, in haskell, everything is a function. There aren't any variables in haskell, but you can declare a function that takes no arguments and returns only one result This is a common myth [1]. [1]: http://conal.net/blog/posts/everything-is-a-function-in-hask...

Ok, what I meant by that was that everything that is 'defined' and 'solidified' (I don't think I know the right word to describe it) is a function in that you can't define variables of type, they're all something that a function returns, and have a more etherial quality. Yeah, I really don't have the words for what I think I'm trying to say, and I don't actually know that either, I'm just going by what people have told me and what I have read of haskell. I'm by no means even familiar with haskell at this stage, so whatever I say about haskell is conjecture from the perspective of a novice in an attempt to describe things to the extent that other novices can have a quick entry path to live-coding (which is the aim here rather than into FP/haskell)