Common Music

Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in JUCE/C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment)

Features

Algorithmic music composition environment
Runs on Mac, Windows and Linux
Real time scheduling of musical algorithms
Two coding languages for designing algorithms: S7 Scheme and SAL (an easy-to-learn alternate)
MIDI input/output
CLM/Sndlib audio system built in (Scottstaedt)
CCRMA digital audio instrument definitions built in (Scottstaedt)
Open Sound Control input/output
Metronomes and running algorithm redefinition for live coding
Data visualization
Music pattern definitions
Fomus system built in for computing music notations (Psenicka)

Project Samples

Keyboard trigger for interactive buffer evaluation

Plot window with three envelopes (layers)

cellular automata with state window (conway's game of life)

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License

GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

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Additional Project Details

Intended Audience

Developers, End Users/Desktop

Programming Language

Lisp

Related Categories

Lisp Sound Audio, Lisp MIDI Software, Lisp Music Composition Software

Registered

2000-08-15

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