“Compiling” Music
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“Compiling” Music
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Re: “Compiling” Music
#2Anyone else disappointed this is not about music meant to be played while compiling code ?
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#3Anyone else disappointed this is not about music meant to be played while compiling code ?
That's what https://musicforprogramming.net/ is for
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#4Anyone else disappointed this is not about music meant to be played while compiling code ?
The title is indeed ambiguous. It could just as well refer to sound-coding systems/languages like Sonic Pi, or to what you imagined. (Which would be an oddly specific kind of music, but cool! The operation of a compiler turned into music, somehow?)
That said, I am not disappointed. But then I am also the one who posted this link in the first place. I started using Lilypond last year for transcribing the melody voices from complex sheet music and automatically transposing them into different keys when needed (which is immensely useful). Just recently I discovered that it can also generate MIDI output, so in addition to having a convenient tool to get beautiful sheet music in whatever key I need, I can now easily have my computer play the melodies and memorise them by listening (which for me, on my current instrument, is much easier than playing from notes directly).
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#5I was pleasantly surprised when I first saw this. I always thought that lilypond was a WYSWYG for music sheets but it turned out that it's more a LaTex for music sheets which is what I prefer for typesetting text.
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#6Anyone else disappointed this is not about music meant to be played while compiling code ?
Have a look at https://chuck.stanford.edu/ or https://supercollider.github.io/.
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#7As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWYG editors, in the same "I deeply care about typography" sort of way that you get from documents produced with TeX but not Word or Google Docs.
My ex-wife is a musician and a music teacher, and (especially for her teaching job) ends up writing a fair bit of sheet music. She used one of the point-and-click scorewriters for a while (Sibelius maybe?) and was thorough displeased with both the output quality and the editing process itself. After some poking and prodding, and getting her to overcome the "but it's writing code!" barrier, she fell in love with how productive it is and still uses it, some 15 years later. It was pretty interesting to see somebody with no exposure to the software world develop their own habits and code style.
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#8As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWYG editors, in the same "I deeply care about typography" sort of way that you get from documents produced with TeX but not Word or Google Docs. My ex-wife is a musician and a music teacher, and (especially for her teaching job) ends up writing a fair bit of sheet…
> As an untrained but interested bystander/hobbyist, the scores engraved by Lilypond are orders of magnitude better than those produced by the mainstream WYSIWYG editors, in the same "I deeply care about typography" sort of way that you get from documents produced with TeX but not Word or Google Docs.
This deep care is documented in the "Essay on automated music engraving" in the Lilypond docs:
http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/essay-big-page.h...
Previously discussed (I guess -- different title and dead link):
Re: “Compiling” Music
#9If creating your scores in vimacs and then typing "make" isn't your cup of tea, there's Frescobaldi, essentially an IDE for Lilypond.
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#10Anyone else disappointed this is not about music meant to be played while compiling code ?
check out https://alda.io/ - it takes some form of music notation and plays it using general MIDI synth