<div dir="ltr">Orm recently merged my pull request that added support for the Mac, so jack is no longer needed. I use cm-incudine on the Mac, and so far I haven't run into any issues.<div><br></div><div>I wrote a blog post a while back which explains how to install commonmusic and incudine on the Mac:<br><a href="https://cianoc.github.io/2023/09/12/Installing.html">https://cianoc.github.io/2023/09/12/Installing.html</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>It's a little fiddly, but it's not a huge deal.</div><div><br></div><div>I mostly use CommonMusic for composed stuff, so I'm not sure how reliable it is for livecoding. But I would guess if you're using SuperCollider/CSound as a backend then it's fine. I've used MIDI a little, but not enough to really stress it, so I can't speak to latency/jitter issues. But again I'd guess it's probably fine.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 11:13 AM Brandon Hale <<a href="mailto:bthaleproductions@gmail.com">bthaleproductions@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p></p><blockquote type="cite"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Ok, that seems like a decent motivation to switch to Scheme, since it is or was used in basic programming courses at universities anyway. But am I wrong to assume that this change created a rather incompatible version, i.e. all existing compositions based on CLOS, and the published papers and books about Common Music became virtually obsolete, and the way to compose with version 3 is significantly different than with version 2? Or do I have a misconception in this respect?</span></blockquote>If you need to run anything with Common Music 2, you can still get it to work...with <a href="https://incudine.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">incudine</a>! I can also confirm, as someone who learned lisp with cm-incudine, that Taube's book "Notes from the Metalevel" works with cm-incudine, thanks to Orm Finnendahl's help. I use the cm-incudine system for my own endeavors, like <a href="https://youtu.be/i2BiwwZGtaA?si=24nDxuUqoMETOvr0" target="_blank">this piece</a> (hopefully it's okay to show a piece, not trying to advertise).<p></p>
<p>Check out this link: <a href="https://github.com/ormf/cm-incudine" target="_blank">https://github.com/ormf/cm-incudine</a> to learn more. Cm-incudine relies heavily on Jack, so using it on Linux works the best, but I've gotten it to work on Macos before at work.</p>
<p>I also wrote an installer for it for Arch Linux distros and a docker image that can work on any system that docker will run on, without the realtime audio support of course:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/brandflake11/install-cm-incudine" target="_blank">https://github.com/brandflake11/install-cm-incudine </a></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/brandflake11/cm-incudine-docker" target="_blank">https://github.com/brandflake11/cm-incudine-docker</a></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Thank you both very much for your quick response and the interesting information.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">> Scheme is a somewhat easier language to learn and use ... I think the motivation was to simplify teaching computer music.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Ok, that seems like a decent motivation to switch to Scheme, since it is or was used in basic programming courses at universities anyway. But am I wrong to assume that this change created a rather incompatible version, i.e. all existing compositions based on CLOS, and the published papers and books about Common Music became virtually obsolete, and the way to compose with version 3 is significantly different than with version 2? Or do I have a misconception in this respect?</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">> if you are looking to use specifically Common Lisp for computer-based composition</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Actually I currently rather try to find out which language is best suited to represent music on a symbolic, compositional (not physical or sound design) level. I'm not sure Common Lisp or Scheme are the best solution, neither Python. SAL is an interesting approach, but essentially Scheme with a kind of Pascal syntax as far as I understand it.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt">Best</span></p>
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