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Music Programming for Java and JVM Languages

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Very cool! I wonder how this compares to Princeton/Stanford's collaborative project ChucK in terms of performance: http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/

My main criticism of ChucK was the fact that it would oftentimes crash during compiling.

The benefit is that the timing in ChucK is impeccable - a necessity for music programming.

And if you combine either of these two languages with single-hit drum samples + some processing, it would be funny to see people automate the garbage we hear on the radio.

Actually, this library appears to be MIDI only.

Oh man, this is officially Cool As Hell. I never bothered learning to play an actual instrument, but I've been intrigued by dabbling with one of these various "program music" environments for a while. But the learning curve and what-not seemed just steep enough to put me off digging in. But this... this is Java! And that's my domain. (Yeah, yeah, bring on the flames, I don't care).

In about two minutes I had some of their examples up and running and can already see how to start having fun with this. I don't think I'll ever be a great music composer, but this might at least motivate me to finally learn some music theory.

if you can borrow a laptop (and MIDI controller) that has reaper, ableton, garage band or Logic Pro X loaded, i bet you'd be amazed at how they make harmonic and rhythmic structures accessible to anybody that wants to play music. GB is probably the most accessible of those

There's some other DAWs that i hear a lot about, FL studio, cubase, reason. Probably good also, i just don't know anything about.

It seems like when I hear people talking about "music programming" the most common software I hear mentioned is SuperCollider. How does that compare to the ones you just mentioned? Sorry if that's a dumb question, but I'm actually pretty clueless about this field. I'm just fascinated by the idea of being able to "play" music without the additional challenge of learning all the physical motions / muscle memory / coordination needed to: play guitar, play piano, etc. I also like not having to go out and buy an instrument. :-)

I highly recommend checking out the demo for Reason: https://www.propellerheads.se/reason

And eventually you may want to check out Max/MSP for a more "programmy" composition environment (graphical programming but it supports Java and JavaScript coding as well).

Common Music is really cool. http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net/ It is a single executable for all platforms. There are coding examples in the Help menu in Scheme and a sans parenthesis lisp, called SAL. Bird calls are built algorithmically and sound almost real, but do not use any samples; the sound is built from scratch. Grace also has standard music naming too, if that's what you're used to using.

Is this somewhat equivalent of Sonic Pi? http://github.com/samaaron/sonic-pi http://sonic-pi.net/ Maybe not Sonic seems focused on live performing.

While not related to the JVM, the functional aspect might be interesting for the scala and clojure people.

http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/haskell-school-of-music/

Also add earsketch to the list of others http://earsketch.gatech.edu/landing/

I thought, based on the title, this is something similar to Music to Code by - http://mtcb.pwop.com/

some others:

clojure: http://overtone.github.io/ scala: https://github.com/Sciss/ScalaCollider

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