Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by yoyohello13 on Thursday August 20, 2026 @06:45PM
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The main benefit of strudel is it’s much easier to get started. Maybe it’s changed but when I tried Tidal Cycles a few years ago it was a massive pita to get installed.
Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by VohuMana on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:31PM
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100% getting everything working for TidalCycles was rough, I remember needing to get Haskell, TidalCycles, and SuperCollider all communicating with each other and on the correct version. Once it was installed and working it was pretty solid but lots of headaches getting to that point. Maybe it’s better now though
Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by whywhywhywhy on Friday August 21, 2026 @05:13AM
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Shortchanging it a bit when it moves it to the browser so less technical people can run it and moves it to a language significantly more people understand too.
Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by jchanimal on Friday August 21, 2026 @02:10PM
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I wrote a tutorial about how you can import Strudel without embedding it. They publish JS modules so you can just import them and build an app around them: https://good.vibes.diy/blog/you-can-just-make-music
Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by onion2k on Thursday August 20, 2026 @04:35PM
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There's a youtuber called Switch Angel who regularly posts live coding sessions of her making trance music with Tidal. Worth a listen and a watch to see what's possible. https://youtube.com/@switch-angel?si=wUTkBU1G9OdC24rx
Re:Tidal Cycles – Live coding music with Algorithmic patterns
by lelandbatey on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:23PM
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Note that the artist is technically using Strudel in their videos, not Tidal Cycles; Strudel is effectively a re-build of Tidal Cycles in JS so it runs in browser and doesn't require installation. https://strudel.cc/
So cool. Reminds me, I should learn me a Haskell... for great good!
https://learnyouahaskell.github.io/introduction.html