Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure

https://overtone.github.io

by elamje • 3 years ago

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overtone.github.io

nologic01• 3 years ago

How does overtone compare to Tidal Cycles and are there plans to make it run in the browser (like the Strudel project)?

phowat• 3 years ago

The lead developer seems to have move on to https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi

bongobingo1• 3 years ago

Strange dice that it seems to mostly be c++, sponsored by 3 prominent elixir shops, with an original OSC server implementation by Joe Armstrong.

https://github.com/sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi/tree/dev/app/server...

voat• 3 years ago

Looks pretty neat.

Their logo is reminiscent of the old Fushia OS logo https://ms.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail:Google_Fuchsia_Logo.svg

chaosprint• 3 years ago

Most live coding languages relying on SuperCollider can take advantage of the client-server architecture of SC and support collaboration easily. So it's very interesting that the concept of collaboration is highlighted on Overtone website. Is it embedded in the language aspect?

When I develop Glicol[1], I want to build a WYSIWYG style: for example commenting out a line will mute the track. But it brought some challenges to collaboration so I have to build some "consensus" mechanism on top of the Google doc style text co-editing (powered by yjs[2]).

[1] https://glicol.org/

[2] https://github.com/yjs/yjs

sramsay• 3 years ago

This is really cool!

1MachineElf• 3 years ago

Recently I watched a great presentation[0] about Overtone by Chris Ford, delivered back in 2012. It was also the first time I saw my SO interested in a programming language talk - she isn't familiar with programming, but she does have a music background.

[0] https://youtu.be/Mfsnlbd-4xQ

scns• 3 years ago

This talk is really something to behold. Paused it to say: Thank you very much!

atroche• 3 years ago

Hah, I actually came to this comments thread to link to this. I had a similar experience with my SO!

foxbyte• 3 years ago

Check out SuperCollider and Clojure for more on the tech behind Overtone. They offer great resources for audio programming and live coding!

iainctduncan• 3 years ago

Just a warning for folks getting excited, I think Overtone was cool, but it's a dead project and there are lots of currently live options for doing similar things instead. Overtone has not seen work from the author since 2015 as he now focuses on Sonic Pi, his Ruby based system. And it's had very minimal activity by others in a long time.

If you want to use something similar to Clojure, there is CL-Collider, the common lisp front end to supercollider.

Or on a related but different tip, I am the author of Scheme for Max and Scheme for Pd, which you can use to script Max and PD with s7 Scheme. I will be doing another release this fall having now just finished my Master's thesis on it. There is also Julien Vincenot's MoZLib for CL alongside Max. Extempore is another Scheme based live coding system.

swayvil• 3 years ago

If setup and draw are hard working artistic gladiators, sketch is the arena in which they battle for the glory of art. However, they don't actually fight each other - they work as a team - relentlessly spilling colour all over the arena sands. The crowds roar for messy fight.

He has the right attitude.

Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure

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