digital_composition.md

Digital composition

• Ableton Guide: Learning Music

• Against The Clock - Electronic musicians are asked to create a track in 10 minutes.

• J74 Progressive - A Max for Live tool set for Chord Progression and Harmonic Editing in Ableton Live

Similar tools: RapidComposer, Orb Composer, ChordChord, Captain Chords Epic, Scaler, ChordPotion, Phrasebox. See YouTube comparisons

• V.J. Manzo, Will Kuhn. Interactive Composition: Strategies Using Ableton Live and Max for Live

• Will Kuhn, Ethan Hein. Electronic Music School: A Contemporary Approach to Teaching Musical Creativity

• Антон Маскелиаде. Твой первый трек - Очень вдохновляющий учебник по созданию электронной музыки в Аблетоне для начинающих с посылом "у вас сразу всё начнёт получаться" и "не дайте внешней критике загубить ваш талант". Разбирает строение треков (элементы гармонии, форму, сведение), много примеров из Radiohead, есть разделы про психологию начинающего музыканта и сетап домашней студии. Также есть большое дружелюбное комьюнити, интенсивные курсы, ежемесячная рассылка, справочник по эффектам Аблетона

• Books about Max/MSP

• Ric Viers. The Sound Effects Bible: How to Create and Record Hollywood Style Sound Effects

• Alessandro Cipriani, Maurizio Giri. Electronic Music and Sound Design - Theory and Practice with Max and MSP

• Books by Curtis Roads

• Jukeblocks - a skeleton generator

• Pocket Operations - A collection of drum machine patterns in a PDF book

• Flucoma

• Dennis DeSantis. Making Music. 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers

• Building Blocks from creators of Syntorial

• https://greggman.com/downloads/examples/html5bytebeat/html5bytebeat.html

Programming languages

Roughly, there are three types of tools to produce music (listed in descending popularity):

• DAWs (Ableton is on the rise; Cubase, Logic, FLStudio also fall here)
• visual programming languages (Max/MSP and PureData)
• text-based programming languages

Inside the “text-based programming languages” group, SuperCollider seems to be the most popular among low-level. That is, there are high-level languages sitting on top of SuperCollider like TidalCycles or Sonic Pi which may be more popular and more modern and more useful for livecoding. There’s probably one for your favorite programming language.

Reddit community sizes:

• Ableton 333k members
• Max/MSP 11k
• PureData 5.9k
• SuperCollider 2.5k
• TidalCycles 815

Also, OpenMusic

• Tidal Cycles - A live coding environment with a painful setup that allows you to compose loops using code. Useful for very tricky rhythmic patterns. Watch people doing it. Also look at Hydra to code visuals for your algorave. Also a book edited by its creator describing the algorithmic landscape. Also Strudel

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