Overtone: Clojure toolkit for programmable music on SuperCollider, README overview
The README presents Overtone as a Clojure environment for live-coded synthesis and music programming on top of SuperCollider.
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Source: https://github.com/overtone/overtone
What it supplies: The README presents Overtone as a Clojure environment for live-coded synthesis and music programming on top of SuperCollider.
Useful for: - Live-code music and design synths from a Clojure REPL.
- Drive MIDI and OSC devices and fetch Freesound samples from code.
First action: - Install Java, the Clojure CLI tools and SuperCollider.
- Add the overtone dependency to deps.edn and start the REPL.
- Run (use 'overtone.live) and try (demo (sin-osc)).
Prerequisites and limits: Java 11 or higher, Clojure CLI, SuperCollider with scsynth; example dependency version 0.16.3331.
- Platform-specific setup is on the wiki, which was not read.
- On macOS scsynth may not be on the path; having SuperCollider.app installed is enough, per the README.
Source-documented: MIT License.
Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on the feature list, quick start, wiki pointers and licence README text; videos and interviews were not read. Nothing was installed or run.
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