musicode

Making music with code using Tidal Cycle & SuperCollider

Getting Started

Install Tidal Cycle & SuperCollider (MacOs)

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tidalcycles/tidal-bootstrap/master/tidal-bootstrap.command -sSf | sh

Step by Step

Once the script is installed, open:

• SuperCollider and open the superColliderConfig.scd file
• Run each command by pressing the Shift + Enter key on each line following the order of each step

You might have to change the Audio setting of your Mac. To do so, you need to go to Audio MIDI Setup and change the Output Device to Mac OSX Built-in Output - 'MacBookPro Speakers' and then change the Output Format to 44,100 Hz format from 48,000 Hz.

• Open Atom Code Editor that was installed on your machine, or Vs-Code and install the Tidal Cycle Extension.

• Create a file with the extension .tidal or open the music.tidal file from this repo.

To run the code in the file you'll have to press Control + Enter or Command + Enter;

You should be hearing a beat.