Related projects
Here is a list of projects connected with TidalCycles, whether they interface with, inspired, or are inspired by it.
(For a long list of all the live coding environments, see the awesome-livecoding list.)
Ports and parsers
- Estuary is a platform for collaboration and learning through live coding, hosting a range of environments in a web-browser, including “minitidal”, a parser for Tidal
- Strudel is an advanced port of TidalCycles to Javascript that runs in a web browser
- Kidal is a port of Tidal to Kotlin
- Tranquility is a port of Tidal to Lua
- Vortex is a port of Tidal to Python
Editors
- Extramuros, a language-neutral shared-buffer networked live coding system in the browser (precursor of Estuary)
- Feedforward, a strange terminal-based editor in development
- Siren, a tracker interface for TidalCycles and SuperCollider
- Troop, a real-time collaborative tool that enables group live coding within the same document across multiple computers. Works with a range of live coding languages, including Tidal
Editor plugins
Synths and samplers
- Dirt, the original ‘classic’ dirt, implemented in C
- SuperDirt, the SuperCollider rewrite, recommended for general use (unless running in a web browser)
- webdirt, the Javascript rewrite, part of estuary
SuperCollider (or SuperDirt) add-ons
- StageMaster — light mastering chain for use during live performance in SuperCollider
Visual systems
- Didactic pattern visualizer — Sound pattern visualizer programmed in Processing
- p5jsDirt — integration with p5.js
Syncing / interfacing
- Carabiner, for bridging with the Link protocol
- ESPGrid, synchronisation designed for live coding environments including supercollider, foxdot as well as tidal
- Node.js interface for sending messages between Javascript and tidal
Tidal-inspired systems
- Krill — a javascript-based live coding environment inspired by tidal
- tidal.pegjs — a parsing expression grammar for the TidalCycles mini-notation, written using PEG.js. The goal of the PEG is to easily translate strings of Tidal-style mini notation into annotated JavaScript data structures for use in sequencing. Works with Gibber and Hydra!
Systems that inspired Tidal
- Bol processor — algorithmic music system based on compositional grammars, grown from research into symbolic notation of tabla rhythms
- Euterpea is a cross-platform, domain-specific language for computer music applications embedded in the Haskell programming language
- Douglas Repetto’s beat rotation experiments, e.g. rotcomposer in MEAPsoft