Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by schot on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:16AM (#28199079)

How does this compare to LilyPond? I'm surprised it isn't mentioned at all, since from a first glance the notation looks very similar.

[0]: http://lilypond.org/

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by rekado on Monday August 16, 2021 @12:12PM (#28199720)

I actually used LilyPond for composition. It's a little less convenient because MIDI output is rather limited. But it gets the job done:

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/music-production-on-guix-s...

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by tartoran on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:32AM (#28199261)

"LilyPond is a music engraving program", great for writing sheet music. This seems to be a music composition tool, eg you can use the repl to tweak your performance

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by nemetroid on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:59PM (#28202896)

I didn't see anything in the tutorial that LilyPond doesn't also do (and in a similar way).

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Re:Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition by ARandomerDude on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:29AM (#28199226)

I don't see support for adding lyrics in Alda unless I'm missing it.

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