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Looking for some music tools to try

I am looking for a music production/DAW tool. I have done some playing around with the Web Audio API (see my series of articles on Theresa’s Sound World, and exploration of the Tone.js library), but found it difficult to use those tools for music composition. Some apps I am going to review (Windows versions) are:

My main interest is in algorithmic composition, so I am hoping to find a tool that can be scripted or programmed, or accept input files generated by a script or program. A tool I once looked at was Pyknon, a Python library for generating MIDI files, in conjunction with the book Music for Geeks and Nerds. If any of my three readers has any suggestions, let me know!

 

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  • I have been in several conversations in the last week (voice and email) where the concept of “working together” in software development came up, and several threads emerged:

    how the original developer doesn’t/shouldn’t have to do everything – others can contribute (to me, a key concept in open source)
    how interested/engaged users can be an important force in the direction in which a software application or tool goes forward

    Dave Winer has written about this many times:

    The magic of working together

    Key concept of the open web: working together

    Working together means this: If someone else has a good-enough way to do something, rather than reinvent what they do, incorporate what they do into what you do.

    Working together (SOTN 2018)
    Working together in 2019

    I have tried to follow that second point in several ways:

    My blog uses WordPress, I did not develop my own blogging tool
    I use River5 as my RSS reader engine
    I use RiverBrowser to display my own rivers of news

    I document and evangelize how to create your own rivers of news
    I document how to use tools like River4 and 1999.io

    I help others set up these tools

    I am getting ready to start working in the computer music area again after a long absence, and I am reviewing available tools to see if they fit the areas I am interested in. In that way, I am trying to practice the concepts of working together as I have outlined above.
    Anyone want to work together with me? Let me know!