Alex;
> The version of Pure Events that Ade Ward has been live coding with for
> several years is a tracker, where the events are javascript functions.
> Hopefully he will pop up and explain but I think it makes a nice
> point that trackers are spreadsheets plus time.
That'd be nice.
I think trackers are a bit more (in a relevant way); aside from
playback instructions they also have instructions on the way time runs
through them (skip the rest of the pattern, time offsets for shuffle,
etc) and a set of specialised input macros.
The way I'm imagining a "livecoding tracker" is like a tracker but
instead of slots for samples there would be slots for synthesis code
where reserved variables would correspond to the fields for
parameters. There would also be a field for the time playback which
could default to something like;
every beat
play the "step" in each channel
increment the step counter
Maybe there'd also be a repl to write quick commands in to fill the
"spreadsheet".
In my mind's eye this would be quite a nice thing to have.
Kas.
Received on Sun Jan 01 2012 - 19:33:41 GMT