Album written in Ruby

SuperCollider, Pure Data, ChucK, CSound, Nyquist, Overtone, TidalCycles, Bipscript, oh my

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Album written in Ruby

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One reddit user posted an entire album made with Ruby (source code of the library written for it, released under the MIT license).

I think it's very cool that this user did not use Sonic Pi but used directly the Ruby MIDI gem by Ari Russo (unimidi). It's a very low-level approach to algorithmic music, one that just works and could be implemented in any language with a decent MIDI library. Makes us think a lot about perfectionism!
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I appreciate their efforts & wish them a bit of good luck.
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I liked it.
It's also a good showcase of different genres made with this technique.
I wonder how much effort it requires to achieve that.

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LAM wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 9:14 am I liked it.
It's also a good showcase of different genres made with this technique.
I wonder how much effort it requires to achieve that.
Here is a sample song made with that Ruby library:

https://github.com/Dubl/melodyobject/bl ... kokosie.rb

It's a bit like writing ABC notation or other similar text-based languages which allow notation, like TidalCycles, SuperCollider and Overtone.

If you want to try this out yourself in Ruby, there is https://sonic-pi.net/ which is FLOSS, has a GUI and lots of examples :D
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