Strudel Repl – a Music Live Coding Environment Living in the Browser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkgV_-nJOuE

[1] https://flok.cc

All examples I've heard from Strudel so far are pretty boring (constant beat/chord machine music).

Are there examples in other styles?

Tide Cycles doesn't work on Fedora, so I might use this instead. Anyway to get it running as a node js script so I use it locally?

https://strudel.cc/?mTeJt_ICoPrw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrMk5HTVwJQ

It will explain the process DJDave uses to create music under strudel

$: arrange( [4, "<sh09_bd>(4,8)"], [4, "<sh09_bd>(4,8)"], [1, "<sh09_bd mfb512_sd>(6,6)"] ).s().fast(2).layer(x=>x.add("0,2")).gain(".4!2 .5").phaser(2).phasercenter("<4000 800 4000 4000>")

$: s("gm_tinkle_bell").distort("<1 2 1 2:.5>").crush("<8 8 8 6 6 8 8>").chop(4)

$: arrange( [2, "<c4 e4 g4>(3,8)"], [1, "<f4 a4 c5>(3,8)"], [1, "<c4 e4 g4>(3,8)"] ).note().chop(4).fast(4).distort("<3:.5>").phaser(4).phasercenter("<800>").fm(4).fmdecay("<.05 .05 .1 .2>").fmsustain(.4)._scope()

I don't know what half this stuff does but it was still so much fun and this is probably one of my favorite projects ever. What made it most fun for me is that the reference docs are in the page so it's really easy to pick something at random and just see what it does.

My only criticism is it makes music feel like CSS. In some ways it helps with theory, yes, but the DX is more like Tailwind.

This wasn’t possible as much when the last gen of tools came out (sonic pi etc) but I think the time is right.

The next iteration that would be cool is a true two-way interface between the visualizations and the code. Right now the slider is a really awesome element, for example. I think Bret Victor would be proud.

i remember seing a .appimage hosted on github in the releases, but they moved to a new host now

oh and if you don't know what inspired the name of the software ; a strudel is really yummy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strudel

  Uncaught (in promise) ReferenceError: AudioContext is not defined
    ln https://strudel.cc/_astro/spectrum.Bf7jMx6O.js:1
    W https://strudel.cc/_astro/spectrum.Bf7jMx6O.js:1
    un https://strudel.cc/_astro/spectrum.Bf7jMx6O.js:1
    c https://strudel.cc/_astro/spectrum.Bf7jMx6O.js:1

For some music ed stuff I work on, I actually have s7 Scheme in WASM controlling csound in WASM, both were surprisingly easy to get going!

note("G2@2 A#2 D@2 G@2 ~ G F@2 D@1.5") .sound("piano")

Here is a piece inspired by Dawn of Midi and my attempt at taking a piano synth and trying to make it sound like a lof of different things.

Copy, paste, modify.

const bpm = 138; setcps(bpm/60/4);

// Pattern 1: lower melodic pulse

const bass_pulse = note("<d2 f2 a2 g2>") .s("piano") .slow(4) .gain(rand.range(0.45, 0.65)) .attack(0.005) .decay(0.8) .sustain(1.2) .release(1.2) .lpf(800) .room(0.3) .delay(0.15) .delaytime(0.375) .delayfeedback(0.25) .pan(0.5);

// Pattern 1.5 (?): layered base

const bass_pulse_2 = note("<d2 f2 a2 g2>") .s("piano") .slow(4) .gain(rand.range(0.45, 0.65)) .add(note(12)) .attack(0.005) .decay(0.8) .sustain(1.2) .release(1.2) .lpf(800) .room(0.3) .delay(0.15) .delaytime(0.375) .delayfeedback(0.25) .pan(0.5);

// Pattern 2: Mid-range polyrhythm

const mid_pattern = note("<a3 c4 d4 f4 a3>") .s("piano") .struct("x(5,8)") .gain(rand.range(0.25, 0.45)) .attack(0.008) .decay(0.4) .sustain(0.05) .release(0.6) .lpf(perlin.range(1200, 2200).slow(8)) .room(0.5) .pan(rand.range(0.3, 0.7));

// Pattern 3: repetitive pulse

const high_pulse = note("d5 [~ d5] d5 ~") .s("piano") .fast(2) .gain(rand.range(0.18, 0.35)) .attack(0.01) .decay(0.3) .sustain(0) .release(0.4) .lpf(2800) .room(0.6) .delay(0.25) .delaytime(0.1875) .delayfeedback(0.3) .pan(0.7);

// Pattern 4: Sparse accent notes (3 over 4 polyrhythm)

const accents = note("a4 ~ f4") .s("piano") .slow(2) .gain(rand.range(0.35, 0.55)) .attack(0.5) .decay(0.6) .sustain(0.9) .release(0.9) .lpf(1800) .room(0.45) .pan(0.2) .sometimes(x => x.delay(0.3).delayfeedback(0.4));

// Pattern 5: Extended mid-range polyrhythm (13 over 16 - cello thingie)

const mid_long = note("<a3 c4 d4 f4 a3 c4 e4 d4 f4 g3 a3 c4 d4>") .s("piano") .struct("x(13,16)") .gain(rand.range(0.32, 0.48)) .attack(0.06) .decay(0.9) .sustain(0.25) .release(1.1) .lpf(perlin.range(800, 1400).slow(12)) .lpq(4) .room(0.55) .delay(0.18) .delaytime(0.25) .delayfeedback(0.3) .pan(rand.range(0.35, 0.65));

const high_long = note("<d5 a4 f5 d5 c5 a4 g4>") .s("piano") .struct("x(7,8)") .gain(rand.range(0.28, 0.42)) .attack(0.05) .decay(0.8) .sustain(0.3) .release(1.0) .lpf(sine.range(1000, 1600).slow(8)) .lpq(3.5) .room(0.6) .delay(0.22) .delaytime(0.1875) .delayfeedback(0.35) .pan(0.7);

stack( bass_pulse, bass_pulse_2, mid_long, high_long, mid_pattern, high_pulse, accents );