chucklib-livecode
An framework for live-coding using ddwChucklib objects in the SuperCollider programming language.
Design overview
In chucklib, BP objects play patterns to make sounds. Using this
framework, BPs inherit from a specific process prototype,
PR(\abstractLiveCode), which provides hooks that accept new patterns
from chucklib-livecode. Instances of this process can play any
SuperCollider SynthDefs or Voicers, with a flexible default system.
Chucklib-livecode installs a preProcessor into the SuperCollider
interpreter, which translates compact livecoding commands into full SC
syntax. The most important of these commands divides a bar’s worth of
musical time into events, generally indicated by single characters,
which may also be grouped into subdivisions. This style of notation is
inspired by http://www.ixi-audio.net/ixilang/ and is fairly
straightforward to correlate to the sounding rhythm. Generator
functions may produce new content in every bar.
/kik = "xxxx"; // 4otf /kik.fill1 = "x|x|x|x x"; // trailing 16th-note /kik.triple = "xxx"; // 3 divided over the bar /hh = ".-.-.-.-"; // normal offbeats /hh = ".-|. -^| ^- |.-"; // extra emphasis on 2-a and 3-e /kik/hh/snr+ // play /kik/hh/snr+4 // play on next quant = 4 /kik/hh/snr- // stop
Full documentation is in PDF form: https://github.com/jamshark70/chucklib-livecode/blob/master/cl-manual.pdf
Pitch support and Voicer
There was a note in this space about using the topic/rearticulation branch of the ddwVoicer quark. That’s no longer necessary; I’ve merged that branch into the quark’s master branch.
You might need to update ddwVoicer.
License
chucklib-livecode is licensed this under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. You may create a derivative project, provided you don’t use the code commercially and, if you release your code, you should credit me and license it under CC-BY-NC-SA or a more permissive license.