TIDALCYCLES INTRO

TidalCycles link - https://tidalcycles.org/
these notes link - https://github.com/derekxkwan/tidal-workshop

WHAT IS LIVE CODING

evaluating code snippets realtime

WHY LIVE CODING

tool made to express musical (or visual) ideas quickly (closer to improvisation)
- does a lot for you (but at the same restricts musical scope)
- even more so than more general purpose computer music software (Max/MSP, Pure Data, CSound, bare-bones SuperCollider)

WHAT IS TIDALCYCLES

a way of generating music through code live created by Alex McLean (yaxu)
operates on around the basis of "cycles" (musical equivalent to bar/measure)

COMPONENTS

Haskell DSL (sends OSC messages to SuperCollider aka Tidal)
SuperCollider + Quark (sound generation aka SuperDirt)
editor plugin (Atom, Vim, Emacs, VS Code, Sublime Text)

INSTALLATION

EVERYTHING (Git, SuperCollider, Haskell, Atom)

LINUX

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MAC

curl https://tidalcycles.org/tidal-bootstrap.sh -sSf | sh

WIN

https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Windows_choco_install

BY STEPS

HASKELL

cabal update
cabal install tidal

LINUX/MAC/WIN

https://www.haskell.org/platform/

LINUX ALT.

sudo apt install ghc cabal-install

MAC ALT.

brew install ghc cabal-install

EDITOR PLUGINS

https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/List_of_tidal_editors

SUPERCOLLIDER

https://supercollider.github.io/
Quarks.gui -> Check SuperDirt
Note for Linux users, require use of JACK

DOCKER IMAGES (look outdated)

https://github.com/lvm/tida1vm - tida1vm
https://github.com/DoubleDensity/tidebox - tidebox

GET UP AND RUNNING

Start SuperCollider
SuperDirt.start
open up a .tidal file in your favorite editor
type in p 1 $ sound "bd sn" which will start a nifty bass drum/snare drum loop once executed
type in hush to hush everything once executed

EDITOR COMMANDS

EMACS

start Tidal: C-c C-s
run line: C-c C-c
run multiple lines: C-c C-e

ATOM

start Tidal: Packages > TidalCycles > Boot TidalCycles
run line: shift+enter
run multiple lines: (cmd/ctrl)+enter