Mark Lentczner wrote:
I'm a little lost in the bewildering array of music packages for Haskell, and need some help.
I'm looking to recreate one of my algorithmic music compositions from the 1980s. I can easily code the logic in Haskell.
I'm looking for a the right set of packages and SW so that I can: a) generate short sequences and play them immediately, preferrably in ghci, -- but 'runHaskell Foo.hs | barPlayer' would be acceptable 2) generate MIDI files
I'm on OS X.
So far what I've found is: Haskore, the midi package, and the jack package - and then I'd need some MIDI software synth for the Mac, and Jack based patcher.... Or perhaps I want SuperCollider, and the Haskell bindings - but that seems rather low level for my needs here (I don't really need to patch together my instruments, and I don't want to have re-write the whole timing framework from scratch.)
So - What's a quick easy path here?
I'm also on MacOS X and had the same problem. For immediate sound output, I liked Rohan Drape's [SuperCollider bindings][hsc3], though I started to write my [own library][tomato-rubato] that abstracts away from the internals and presents a simpler interface. Maybe you can find something interesting here. It's currently dormant because the feedback loop in GHCi is still too long for my taste, though. I found Henning Thielemann's [midi][] package very useful for reading MIDI files, I guess it's equally useful for writing MIDI files. [hsc3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hsc3 [midi]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/midi [tomato-rubato]: https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/tomato-rubato Best regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com