I'm really surprised at how many programming languages for music there are.
What I think is interesting is how few of them seem to be aware of tracking style interfaces and how those might be better extended to do many of the kinds of things these languages offer.
I remember showing some programming friends some examples of what trackers look like and the response is usually something like "you have to program the music?" or "oh! it's like asm for music!"[1]
It's a much nicer way of laying down notes quickly and has some pretty mature ideas behind it as a music composition paradigm and offer a huge variety of possibilities for music composition.[2][3]
Writing with trackers is also fast. When you get really good with these tools it's possible to sketch out a 2-3 minute song in 30-60 minutes - softsynths and all.
What I think is interesting is how few of them seem to be aware of tracking style interfaces and how those might be better extended to do many of the kinds of things these languages offer.
I remember showing some programming friends some examples of what trackers look like and the response is usually something like "you have to program the music?" or "oh! it's like asm for music!"[1]
It's a much nicer way of laying down notes quickly and has some pretty mature ideas behind it as a music composition paradigm and offer a huge variety of possibilities for music composition.[2][3]
Writing with trackers is also fast. When you get really good with these tools it's possible to sketch out a 2-3 minute song in 30-60 minutes - softsynths and all.
1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3xHPIuX3s4 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45BH12-O_94 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUx8PrDqUiY