| 2 Apr 2024 |
 @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
Does anyone know of a live music coding chat channel? Not really, but let me know if you find one. A lot of people in here are interested in live coding (myself included, I've done some live coding shows). In my computer club, cyberia.club, some people are interested in live coding as well, we've done some demo show stuff, so you could hop over to our matrix server! | 03:38:23 |
 Miles Dyson | I still get an occasional click . . but so far only when when starting VCV rack. | 03:38:45 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
Not really, but let me know if you find one. A lot of people in here are interested in live coding (myself included, I've done some live coding shows). In my computer club, cyberia.club, some people are interested in live coding as well, we've done some demo show stuff, so you could hop over to our matrix server! COOL! | 03:39:18 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | #musicollab:cyberia.club is the closest thing I know of. It's a dead board right now but I'd be very happy to revive it with live coding talk! Maybe we can get another demo thing going! | 03:39:37 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
Not really, but let me know if you find one. A lot of people in here are interested in live coding (myself included, I've done some live coding shows). In my computer club, cyberia.club, some people are interested in live coding as well, we've done some demo show stuff, so you could hop over to our matrix server! I want to program Axel-F in Sonic-Pi.
Do you know how?
| 03:40:14 |
| Miles Dyson | That is awesome! | 03:40:45 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
I want to program Axel-F in Sonic-Pi.
Do you know how?
I've used sonic-pi a fair bit. That'd be a big project, but I'm happy to help! | 03:41:26 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I mostly use it for sample slicing, or sometimes to generate music for my podcasts that I want to go on for a while but have some variety. I haven't done much really complicated stuff in it. | 03:43:13 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | Orca is the other live coding language I've used, which is really fun, but somewhat less practical. | 03:43:33 |
| Miles Dyson | I am near the Midwest Renewable Energy Association.
https://www.midwestrenew.org/
Every year they have a big fair.
I would like to try and see if I can get the coordinators to host a Maker Fair / Music Tech Fest.
https://mtflabs.net/ | 03:43:50 |
| Miles Dyson | In reply to @fractivore:cyberia.club
#musicollab:cyberia.club is the closest thing I know of. It's a dead board right now but I'd be very happy to revive it with live coding talk! Maybe we can get another demo thing going! This would be nice. | 03:45:14 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | That would be awesome! Unrelated to music but yes related to renewable energy, I've also been getting pretty into parabolic solar collector tech 😁 | 03:46:07 |
| Miles Dyson | I mention it because during the fair, in the evening they have a stage and people perform, I would like to setup a VJ/DJ rig and do a presentation. | 03:48:07 |
| Miles Dyson | That is part of the reason I am studying live music coding and modular synths. | 03:48:35 |
| Miles Dyson | He is there a way to translate a midi file into a program? | 03:49:00 |
| Miles Dyson | If I get an Axel-F midi, maybe a language model trained on Sonic-Pi could translate the MIDI into coded instructions. | 03:50:17 |
| Miles Dyson | https://freemidi.org/download3-8046-axel-f-crazy-frog | 03:51:05 |
| Miles Dyson | How do I play a midi with Sonic-Pi? | 03:51:48 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
If I get an Axel-F midi, maybe a language model trained on Sonic-Pi could translate the MIDI into coded instructions. That's a deterministic problem, so if you wanted to do it programatically, I think you'd be better off with a deterministic program. | 03:57:38 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | What role do you want sonic-pi to play in this situation? | 03:58:43 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I've used sonic-pi more with midi out than midi in, like to generate midi tracks that I want to swap out the instruments on or whatever. You could also take the midi input and have sonic-pi generate the audio, perhaps adding effects programatically - sort of using sonic-pi like a modular synth. | 04:00:29 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | There are quite a few ways you could use the midi, and none of them are necessarily right or wrong. In the sonic-pi IDE, there's a tutorial section - part 11 is MIDI. I'd read through that section so you can bend it to your will for whatever sort of expression you choose. | 04:02:05 |
| Miles Dyson | How do I open a midi file with Sonic-Pi? | 04:02:23 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | In reply to @technicus:matrix.org
How do I open a midi file with Sonic-Pi? Ah, so that, I don't think you can do. Sonic-pi can recognize the midi signal but I don't think it supports midi files directly. | 04:03:14 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | Personally, with my stack, I'd probably open up the midi file in ardour and route it into sonic-pi using PipeWire or JACK. | 04:03:41 |
| Miles Dyson | So I will need to play the midi file with a different program then send the midi signal into Sonic-Pi. | 04:03:53 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | pretty much, yeah. In the IO tab, there's a "midi inputs" section. | 04:04:35 |
| Miles Dyson | I am such a noop . . . I have not even opened Ardour yet. | 04:04:37 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | I've tried out quite a few daws, most of the free ones plus a few that cost money, and ardour is by far my favorite! | 04:05:21 |
| @fractivore:cyberia.club | You can just drag and drop the midi file in! | 04:06:03 |
