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Loved playing with it! https://strudel.cc/?qVv8Cr0OD6cc

I shed an actual tear. I dreamed of days like this. I got close, building a small language for generating generic music, but with decay, sawtooth and stuff? It's a functional DAW.

> functional DAW

I made Lambda Musika[0][1] a long time ago and its elevator pitch is literally "Lambda Musika, the functional DAW" (as in functional programming).

Check the teal button at the bottom for other examples!

I don't use it that much anymore (Strudel's language is truly expressive) but I still reach for it when I want to do sound design, since Strudel is more like a sequencer (where Lambda Musika lacks).

[0] https://lambda.cuesta.dev/

[1] https://github.com/alvaro-cuesta/lambda-musika

This is so incredible, musically, visually and didactically. Absolutely amazing. Absolutely amazing.

That demo is excellent. You can uncomment some lines at the bottom and hit alt+enter (or click the Update button) to add visualization effects too.

Amazing! Though I can't get the theme to stop changing while the music is playing. Is there a setting I'm missing?

Looks like the theme changes are part of the arrangement (see lines 135-149).

Set colors to false on line 133

That's absolutely sick. I love seeing a full arrangement like this as opposed to destructive live coding--that's cool too, but I don't really vibe with it as a workflow. Definitely taking some inspiration from this.

Wow, I started learning recently, I didn't know you can change the theme.

Also this music brings really good vibes!

I get more motivated when I can see it working directly and change some code here and there!

Thanks for sharing.

Ahh, so THAT's how you make an actual song with it instead of just a loop :)

SwitchAngel always makes their songs live so I never got it, but now I understand.

Well that song was my digital dopamine for the day. Couldn’t stop bobbing my head while in a busy train

Love this! Patterning the theme is such a great idea.

That made me smile, well done and thanks Lennard! (do recommend setting colors = False though)

Great work! I'm saving this one (I have it in a loop rn on my big screen).

This is great! I'm not really into electro, but I really like this one!

This is absolutely insane.

You made an entire performance. Good, good job

I found that annoying on the editor, but if used on a 2nd screen to build graphics programmatically (fractals, etc), or via an external port to drive RGB LEDs arrays or matrices, results could be spectacular. Imagine fractals driven by music or a giant spectrum analyzer made of LED strips.

I recently bodged together a board that would drive FastLED programs parameterized by the control voltages that come off a eurorack, it was really neat and straightforward because you have some really good clock sources to sync to

Not recommended for people prone to seizures

Love, love, love it! A fitting username!

Very cool! Thank you for sharing :)

That was a lovely experience.

love how you change the style as it plays. the custom font is a nice touch :)

RIP epileptics

Bravo!

Fantastic!

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