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Using ChatGPT for Algorithmic Music Composition

Written by on October 13, 2024 in Music, OpenAI with 0 Comments
Using ChatGPT for Algorithmic Music Composition

Algorithmic music composition is one of my favourite areas. And in terms of tools, as several of my past articles show, OpusModus software is the main choice.  Recently I have been spending some time checking if ChatGPT could be cajoled into writing some good OpusModus code. But the experience has not been very positive; the code […]

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Using L-System to Generate Music

Written by on January 31, 2021 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Using L-System to Generate Music

L-system is a powerful string rewriting system. Opusmodus supports an implementation of this system (inspired by and based on this implementation). It is possible to use the L-system to generate anything that can be described in terms of an alphabet and a set of rewriting rules.  Let us start with a simple example: As you can see, there are […]

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Using JFugue with External DAW

Written by on January 2, 2021 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Using JFugue with External DAW

Let this New Year 2021 bring health and happiness to us all! In the last article, I talked briefly about JFugue and showed how to access it from LispWorks Lisp on a PC running Windows 10. In that example, the music was rendered by the built-in synthesizer. Although this is fine, it is sometimes desirable to […]

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JFugue: A Java Library for Music Synthesis

Written by on December 20, 2020 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
JFugue: A Java Library for Music Synthesis

JFugue is an open-source Java library that can be used for algorithmic music composition. Developed by David Koelle, currently it is in its fifth major version. You can get the library from here. I had downloaded the library some time ago, but could not spend much time since my primary focus has been on Opusmodus. This […]

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Using Falcon 2 with Opusmodus

Written by on December 6, 2020 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Using Falcon 2 with Opusmodus

The recently concluded Black Friday sale by UVI was an irresistible temptation for me and I ended up investing in Falcon 2 and a few other instruments. Although I have the latest versions of Ableton Live, Propellerheads Reason, Renoise, and Reaper, I felt Falcon 2 would be a good addition to my existing collection, mainly because […]

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A Library for Algorithmic Music Composition

Written by on November 22, 2020 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
A Library for Algorithmic Music Composition

I have recently started implementing a library for algorithmic music composition. It provides higher-level algorithms and abstractions for composing multi-track music, and works with Opusmodus software. Opusmodus is a great platform for music composition and has excellent support for MIDI-based music. My library is an attempt to enrich the Opusmodus platform with features that facilitate easier […]

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Using Random Walk Principle to Generate Music

Written by on October 24, 2020 in LISP, Music, Programming with 1 Comment
Using Random Walk Principle to Generate Music

In mathematics, the simplest example of Random Walk is a random process along a one-dimensional plane of integers, starting at 0 and moving in the positive or negative direction in steps of +1 or -1, with equal probability. The Random Walk theory has been applied in many domains including Physics and even the Stock Market. Here is a […]

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Controlling Reaktor from Opusmodus Using OSC

Written by on March 20, 2019 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Controlling Reaktor from Opusmodus Using OSC

I am a great fan of Opusmodus software. I have written many articles about it in the past. Owing to my several other commitments, I am not able to spend much time on it these days, but I keep checking the features in new releases regularly. The software has evolved substantially since its first release a […]

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Pattern Matching with Optima Lisp Library – Part 3

Written by on June 29, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Pattern Matching with Optima Lisp Library – Part 3

In the previous two posts on this topic, I explained some of the basic pattern matching facilities of Optima library. There are many more advanced features in the library and I will try to discuss them in future posts. In today’s post, I will outline a straightforward application of the library for processing scores in Opusmodus. In […]

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Constraint Programming in Picat

Written by on May 26, 2016 in LISP, Music, Programming with 0 Comments
Constraint Programming in Picat

In my last post I briefly described how we can use the Screamer Lisp library for constraint programming in music. Another language I have been hearing a lot about, in the context of constraint programming, is Picat, a Prolog-derived language. Although I am familiar with Prolog and have been a user of Sicstus Prolog for many […]

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