FLOSS Weekly 197

Overtone

Overtone is an Open Source toolkit for creating synthesizers and making music. It provides:

• A Clojure API to the SuperCollider synthesis engine
• A growing library of musical functions (scales, chords, rhythms, arpeggiators, etc.)
• Metronome and timing system to support live-coding and sequencing
• Plug and play midi device I/O
• Simple Open Sound Control (OSC) message handling
• Pre-cache - a system for locally caching external assets such as .wav files
• An API for querying and fetching sounds from http://freesound.org

Links:

• Source: http://github.com/overtone/overtone
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/overtone
• Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/overtone

Videos

• http://vimeo.com/22798433
• http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/clojurex-unpanel-2894

Clojure/conj video including demonstrations: http://blip.tv/clojure/sam-aaron-programming-music-with-overtone-5970273

Installing

• https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki/Installing-overtone
• http://vimeo.com/25190186

Documentation

• https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki

Sam Aaron

• Twitter: http://twitter.com/samaaron
• Web: http://sam.aaron.name,