Tidal Cycles
installing on osx with emacs
in terminal
- brew install cabal-install
- cabal update
- cabal install tidal
emacs
- package-install haskell-mode
in supercollider
- Quarks.gui
- (install SUperDirt)
- include(“SuperDirt”)
- SuperDirt.start
edit .emacs
(require 'haskell-mode) (require 'tidal) (setq tidal-interpreter "/usr/local/bin/ghci")))
edit a file like test.tidal in emacs
- M-x tidal-start-haskell
tides
adding samples & instruments
in sc3 get location of folder
Quarks.folder
- samples in <Quarks.folder>/Dirt-Samples
- instruments in <Quarks.folder>/SuperDirt/synths/default-synths.scd
in tidal
~dirt.loadSoundFiles(“path/to/my/samples/*”)
further
- creating patterns http://tidalcycles.org/patterns.html
- function reference http://tidalcycles.org/functions.html