Tidal Cycles

Intro

• Tidal Cycles (Tidal) is a pattern language for live coding music.
• SuperCollider is an audio engine used by Tidal. It also provides a programming language sclang for audio synthesis.
• SuperDirt is a plugin for SuperCollider for receiving messages and turning them to sound[^1].
• Strudel is a Tidal's port to JavaScript.
• Uzulangs shares the same-model (mini-notation) for describing sequences.

Setup

• enable jack from pipewire
• enable superdirt (supercollider with sc3 plugins) from ghci - execute SuperDirt.start

[^1]: Start Tidal | Tidal Cycles

[^2]: GitHub - mitchmindtree/tidalcycles.nix: A Nix flake for Tidal Cycles.