What's this?

This is a combination of Glicol and Strudel for using TidalCycles Pattern as signal or scheduler.

Usage

Glicol in JS style

I assume you are familiar with Glicol from its website already: https://glicol.org

Then, all you need to do is to convert it into the JavaScript style:

glicol.play({
  "~t1": seq("60 _48 _72 67_67").sp("cb").mul(0.1),  
  o: mix("~t..").plate(0.1)
})

Use Pattern as Reference

In Glicol, some Node parameters can be controlled by a Reference:

Glicol style:

o: sin 440 >> mul ~am
~am: sin 1.1 >> mul 0.3 >> add 0.5

JS style:

glicol.play({
  "o": sin(440).mul("~am"),  
  "~am": sin(1.1).mul(0.3).add(0.5)
})

You can now replace that with a sig node and use the Tidal Pattern syntax (https://tidalcycles.org/):

glicol.play({
  "o": sin(440).mul("~am"),  
  "~am": sig( "[1 0.5 0.1 0.9]".take(1) ),
})

The example above is not very audio robust but it shows how the Pattern works with Glicol. The value jumps at certain time and take determines the Span of repetition.

So you can use sig together with Pattern.take to control any modulable node parameters.

Psampler

Another example is psampler, a specially made node to alternate samples:

glicol.play({
    "~t1": psampler( "[cb [rm sid] tok*3 talk1]*2".take(1) ).mul(0.2),
    "~t2": psampler( "[bin]*4".take(1)).mul(0.2),
    o: mix("~t1 ~t2").plate(0.1)
})

Run locally

pnpm i
pnpm dev

Dev note (not for users)

sudo pnpm link --dir /usr/local/lib/ glicol