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Learning music with Strudel

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Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by l0c0b0x »

raphar wrote: post #4

I posted this link, some days ago: Coding Trance Music from Scratch (Again) [video]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu5rnQkfO6M It´s a well done programming and music performance

Yeah, thanks for both posts. I love the narration with the live coding (like a conversation with voice and code). If I can get to that level, I'll die a happy man.

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by ebertucc »

rodrigodlu wrote: post #16
i_gumby wrote: post #5

There's also a neovim plugin for those who want to play around with this locally https://github.com/gruvw/strudel.nvim ; it essentially launches strudel in a browser but synchronizes the strudel and nvim editors. EDIT: fixed link to not have trailing semicolon.

Is there a way (like a CSS rule or something similar) that when you look at the main strudel window, it only shows the piano rolls, punch cards, sliders, etc - but not the code? Maybe with just the comments? This would be killer, since I have dual displays, and on one I can just focus on the code, the other one can have all the visual stuff. I'm using this plugin, but having the code twice distracts me a lot (but I p…

I'm not using the plugin, but this hides the code in the browser:

.cm-line span { outline: none !important; color: transparent; background: transparent !important; }

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by smrq »

DigitalDopamine wrote: post #3

Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc

That's absolutely sick. I love seeing a full arrangement like this as opposed to destructive live coding--that's cool too, but I don't really vibe with it as a workflow. Definitely taking some inspiration from this.

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by macmac »

I love this approach to learning music.

A nitpick: Isn't the below statement wrong? I thought "RolandTR909" was the name of the soundbank which is used for both bd and sd?

"bd is bass drum (also called kick-drums), sd is snare drum. RolandTR909 is the name of the sound."

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by mvkel »

I was excited to see this, but then realized only chapter 1 is done out of what ultimately will/should be a 25 chapter tome.

Strudel docs leave something to be desired as well.

What I've found to be the most useful so far is to ask an LLM to make a line of whatever: a beat, a synth, etc., tweak it, then layer it.

It gives a really good sense of how to architect a song file, which is missing from the little snippets in the strudel docs

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by grantmuller »

faxmeyourcode wrote: post #2

I've run across more and more strudel musicians (developers?) doing a kind of live coding performance art and posting clips on tiktok and reels. It's really entertaining to watch. I've been meaning to dabble in it.

Another live-coding environment that is quite nice (Haskell-based) is TidalCycles: https://tidalcycles.org

I wrote a whole album of material about 10 years ago with it, just remastered/re-released it. It's a fun way to write music while on an airplane!

Re: Learning music with Strudel

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Post by jarth9 »

Strudel is my favorite music coding environment. I mostly play on acoustic instruments but coding music has been really helpful as I try to learn music theory. Being able to just play in the browser without setup helps me focus on the music and less on fiddling with the tool. And it supports vim key bindings!
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