Music pattern language + live coding environment
This project is a love letter to Tidal. The pattern language is mostly the same, as are many of the combinators. It can even play music using SuperDirt!
What does minipat add?
- Swappable backends - see how small
minipat-dirtis! - A live MIDI backend (
minipat-midi) - Patterns can be pretty-printed back into textual form.
- The pattern language has a plain old syntax tree (
Pat) with standard functions for traversal and recursion (even through location annotations). - Lots of tiny changes...
If you have stack installed, and you have supercollider running for use
with tidal, you should be able to run bin/minipat dirt to enter ghci with
everything set up:
[Info] Initializing
[Info] Handshaking ...
[Info] ... handshake succeeded
-- Play kick-snare in orbit 1
> d1 $ s "bd sd"
The MIDI backend requies basically no setup (bin/minipat midi):
-- Send some MIDI note on/off events
> d1 $ n "c5 d6"
However, if you have different port settings for SuperDirt or want to use a non-default
MIDI output, you will probably have to edit the Repl.ghci files in either backend or
run reallocate myBackendOptions myCoreOptions >>= initialize in the REPL.
Please be aware that this is young software in an "it works for me" state!
There is a Neovim plugin - see the README for installation instructions.
Your help is very welcome. Some TODOs follow.
- Implement swing
- Implement polymeters
- Implement chords/arps
- Add more MIDI channel voice events
- Support rendering to MIDI file (with
dahdit-midi) - Additional combinators like
arp, off, jux, |+, every, squiz, range - Backends for... Bitwig? Renoise?
- Backend with push/pull of textual patterns from DAW
- More meaningful
Prettysubclasses for pattern rep or plain old logging - More and better documentation
- Ensure that common exceptions have a useful
displayException - Ensure that live errors do/don't interrupt playback based on debug state
- More thoughtful handling of "continuous" streams/signals (including sampling rate)
This project is BSD-licensed. It is a bottom-up semi-compatible rewrite of Tidal that uses certain APIs, algorithms, names, types, and constants according to "fair use."