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Music Programming for Java and JVM Languages

jfugue.org

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I couldn't find a link to GH from the linked page, but I guess this is it: https://github.com/dmkoelle/jfugue

This seem like an older version. The website has the latest source code as a zip from 2017

Last discussed 7ish years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10022727

One might note that java's standard library has midi built-in, albeit very basic and not especially well-documented.

Also you might check out the midi standard itself; it was originally designed a long time ago, so it tends to be minimalist, efficient, and approachable, even with a few speed bumps of bit/byte finagling & packing, confusion about channels vs. tracks vs. instruments, etc. You can do quite a bit with average hardware.

A couple years ago I made a program to convert midi files into another file format so they could be inserted into a SNES game. I did all the midi bit parsing manually and it was a pretty fun project.

OneLoneCoder's video on midi was something of an inspiration for the project, and it was an invaluable resource for my learning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040BKtnDdg0

Very neat. The first thing that comes to mind is combining this with Processing. I'd like to try making some kind of interactive generative art + music toy.

You might want to look at Overtone, which is a clojure environment built on top of overtone, and which integrates with processing and a few other similar things.

https://overtone.github.io/

Very cool! Thanks

Is there somewhere a good overview of the various open source projects active in the programmatic music space? There is a large number of efforts with different capabilities, stage of maturity, target platforms etc. Some are part of large creative coding projects, some are standalone and ofcourse written all sort of different languages. Its an embarrassment of riches in some way.

Does this help? https://github.com/ad-si/awesome-music-production

(It appears to be a bit old.)

its a good start! indeed it hasn't been updated recently.

In the meantime I found also this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_software

Ideally it would be nice to have a tabular format (is used frequently on wikipedia for comparison tables) where the different relevant dimensions can be sorted. But checking other awesome lists and wikipedia entries I realise this is a huge and somewhat loosely defined space: (audio vs music) (analysis vs production) etc and compiling a definitive list would require some serious research

Fwiw there's https://libreav.org (with notes on https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Creative_coding https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org/Audio etc), though I've been on a break from data entry (and IA betterment) for several months now

will definitely be putting this in my curriculum to teach my son programming :)

hahaha, this is very cool!

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