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A music programming language for musicians. :notes:
12 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 4 stories, 8 comments · first 2015-09-06 · latest 2025-08-23
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Alda – plain text music notationstory by photon_garden · 2025-08-23 · 1 comment
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…is more focused on experimentation rather than conventional songwriting Did you have a look at e.g. https://github.com/alda-lang/alda or https://abcnotation.com/ ? Or e.g. https://github.com/emicklei/melrose is a similar approach as yours.…
comment by Rochus · 2024-02-10 · in Show HN: Code music in Python -
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Alda – text-based programming language for music compositionstory by pabs3 · 2022-06-27 · 0 comments
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…answer is "no", with the addendum that waveform synthesis has been on the TODO list for a while: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/list-of-in...
comment by Igelau · 2021-08-16 · in Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition -
…language. At this point though, we're maybe getting into semantics a bit. Syntax change: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/alda-2-mig...
comment by Willamin · 2021-08-16 · in Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition -
It does have that? https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/blob/master/doc/variables....
comment by wizzwizz4 · 2021-08-16 · in Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition -
Details on how to install Alda on MacOS, Linux, or Windows : https://github.com/alda-lang/alda#installation
comment by daveyarwood · 2019-07-16 · in Programming music for a modern dance piece -
It looks like they are planning on adding a MusicXML export from this issue https://github.com/alda-lang/alda/issues/44 . Is there any tool which convert from MusicXML to MIDI?
comment by gnocchi · 2016-04-13 · in A music programming language for musicians -
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A music programming language for musiciansstory by gnocchi · 2016-04-13 · 26 comments
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…use the MIDI output of these programs as input in Ableton Live, Logic etc. Also check out alda: https://github.com/alda-lang/alda
comment by runeb · 2016-02-05 · in Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi -
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A music programming language for musiciansstory by jswt001 · 2015-12-17 · 0 comments
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Disable non-error debug messages ( https://github.com/alda-lang/alda#logging ): export TIMBRE_LOG_LEVEL=error alda repl
comment by anderspitman · 2015-09-06 · in Alda: A music programming language