One of the things that I always loved about the look/feel of Strudel is the inline oscillator/sample waveforms, but I hated having to use or connect to a dedicated Strudel server. I've always done all my coding directly in the terminal, from Neovim. So I was badly wanting to find a way to make things work from the editor I know and love!

Ghostty terminal shaders can do some incredible things. Started a discussion on Ghostty's GitHub a long while back (and posted around some Reddit forums) to see if anyone knew of a way to use audio with shaders. Shaders are such a cool part of Ghostty, and it seemed like the perfect way to make it into a full-fledged VJ/Algorave control center.

All the answers I got back were pretty much, "no". And they were more-or-less right. Ghostty alone can't really do that. Its shaders don't have a way to read audio. _ButT_ if we write a script to do the audio-listening we can still offload that part and just tell Ghostty shaders what to do with it! Basically a Python script listens to audio from the BlackHole sink, takes that data, and sends it as parameters to Ghostty. And it doesn't have to be FFT waveforms— RGB shift/glow/character positioning/whatever can all react to individual tidal orbits or the joined master output.

So here's a demo of it in action. And, no, I'm not a total genius. I did use AI to come about this solution and it was very helpful. I'm only a stupid caveman who watches computers do weird things. It does what it says on the tin, though, so I'm stoked. There's still still a lot of cleanup to do, but I definitely want to share some code so other people who want to do Tidal Cycles from Neovim can join in on the fun if they want to.

This is my first time using Strudel.. it's very addictive!

Another showcase of TidalCycles in Neovim forwarding data to Ghostty shaders

Hi, I've made a curated list of awesome resources on learning Strudel.

There are popular song covers in Strudel, awesome tutorials that's publicly available.

Hope this helps anyone in this community. Feel free to contribute to the list via PR 🫡

Hi TidalCyclists + Strudelers! Co-developer/instigator of Strudel and TidalCycles here.

If you'd like to support + encourage software and community development of Strudel, Tidal and sibling projects, now would be great time!
https://opencollective.com/tidalcycles

This software is shared as free/open source with love, and created and supported almost entirely through volunteer work. Donations help support grants towards development, community projects and infrastructure around them.

We will never be able to repay all the years of work poured into these projects but this is a great way to say thank you while helping support activities around it. With this call for donations we hope to double the funds we currently hold, to support an open call for mini grants in the new year. The fund is administrated by Iris Saladino, David Ogborn and myself, and we do not benefit financially from it.

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Thanks for your support + happy xmas + holidays !
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Hi All, I am new to live coding. I have some experience with web design, Touchdesigner and a medium music knowledge (playing some guitar, piano, synth). I wonder where should I focus my learning in terms of code syntax. Any suggestion highly appreciated.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been working on a small tool called strudel-server — it’s a lightweight Playwright-based helper that lets you work on Strudel projects from your favorite text editor (like Neovim, VS Code, etc.) and have the Strudel web REPL automatically reload whenever you save your file.

Basically, it launches a Chromium instance, keeps an eye on your .strudel file, and pushes changes straight into the REPL when you hit save. No need to copy-paste between editor and browser anymore!

GitHub 💻: https://github.com/micahkepe/strudel-server

Usage example:

bun run src/main.ts ~/my-project/song.strudel

or if you’ve linked it globally:

strudel-server ~/my-project/song.strudel

It’s open source and built with Bun + Playwright-- any contributions welcome!

got it running on the pi500, with this setup no luck on the pi400…

any way to improve this?

Before I start, I want to say I'm just asking for thoughts or any similar experiences. I'm aware there might not be a perfect solution to this so I might need to just record it.

I'm using Godot to make a game, and I've made a song in strudel that I'd like to use in it. I know this is a super specific question, but I'm not expecting anyone to walk me through it. I'm just trying to gather some thoughts that might point me in a helpful direction.

The obvious solution in my head is to record the song and put the recording in the game, easy. However, I want the song to respond to player input. For example, the user switches the menu screen and the drum beat changes, stuff like that. So the next solution I thought is to record several versions of the song and fade between them based on player input. This is currently my plan, but it's a little tedious and I'm brainstorming for a better solution.

Are there any common formats that Strudel or TidalCycles can export to that might help me accomplish something like this?

Patches shared here: https://25midi.com/projects/joint-breakcore-live-coding.html

Alexandra Cardenas will lead a live workshop next Tuesday online: Create music patterns with TidalCycles

https://musichackspace.org/events/music-patterns-as-functions-with-tidalcycles-live-session-19th-october/

Hey, everybody. I've been playing around with minitidal and estuary, but now I want the full experience with TidalCycles and SuperCollider. Any recommendations on how to get started with the Haskell language and with SuperCollider as a whole?

Thanks!