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New comment by yaxu in "Learning music with Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:45:21 +0000

There have been performance improvements recently.

It is usually worth trying the dev version at: https://warm.strudel.cc/

although I think that's close to the live version at the moment.

New comment by yaxu in "Learning music with Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:43:35 +0000

It's a bit annoying that he forked it back to github, when strudel was purposefully moved to codeberg for ethical reasons.

New comment by yaxu in "Learning music with Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:41:57 +0000

Kind of - that's switching between a fast version and a slow version of the track though if that makes sense, rather than changing the global tempo, so you'll get discontinuities in the music.

You can change the global tempo with something like

.cps("[0.75|1.75]")

and make it happen less often like

.cps("[0.75|1.75]/8")

New comment by yaxu in "Learning music with Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:34:40 +0000

Strudel was moved to codeberg for ethical reasons. Annoying to see so many people forking it back to github in order to make yet another LLM interface.

New comment by yaxu in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

yaxu — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 13:24:38 +0000

You can also use hydra in the standard strudel repl, and vice-versa.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:19:20 +0000

Fast growth of the project isn't our goal and definitely doesn't override our collective ethics. If someone will only send PRs via a proprietary Microsoft platform then maybe this isn't the project for them.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:12:38 +0000

Ah nice I was organising that tent! It would be good to do it again next year

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 06:09:53 +0000

Great! Be sure to respect the licence though.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:47:49 +0000

I've worked with groups of 8 year olds and got them performing music together in less than an hour with tidal (strudel's older sibling). It's not easier than learning to play a drum but it's not really harder either.

It's nothing like trying to teach kids an imperative programming language, it's not really in the same category as general purpose programming. It's designed for music making and you can make complex rhythms very quickly out of very simple parts.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:44:23 +0000

Fair enough. I'm not involved in projects at that scale, and projects adjacent to me all seem to be moving to codeberg.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:12:42 +0000

Emfcamp?

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:11:57 +0000

Speaking as a member of the Strudel project in the OP, it went really well, everything migrated across (issues, PRs etc) pretty much seamlessly. We have to self-host the ci actions, but as a bonus now they run much faster.

It really is a no-brainer for any free/open source project to be hosted on a free/open source platform. It's pretty nuts that so many stay on Microsoft github who are busy IP-stripping everything via AI, even without considering all the other terrible stuff MS get up to that it's best not to support or be associated with.

Quite a few live coding platforms are making the move to codeberg too. It's a bit trickier for desktop apps like supercollider who depend on cross-platform ci builds though.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:55:34 +0000

A bot I expect

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:30:10 +0000

Don't see why moving from the closed source Microsoft Github to free/open source codeberg would turn away any grassroots developer. It's like two extra characters to type and live coders can usually type quite fast.

New comment by yaxu in "Getting Started Strudel"

yaxu — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:28:30 +0000

In what way? It only involves typing a different url in the git clone or when browsing issues or whatever.

New comment by yaxu in "Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser"

yaxu — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:39:12 +0000

For live collaboration you can use the flok editor: https://flok.cc

New comment by yaxu in "Strudel: A live coding platform to write dynamic music pieces in the browser"

yaxu — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:32:17 +0000

Btw you get a random example when you load https://strudel.cc/, not everyone is looking at the same one

New comment by yaxu in "Can You Live Code a Church Organ? [video]"

yaxu — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 20:19:13 +0000

Yes you can use supercollider's tuning model like this: https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt/blob/develop/ha...

New comment by yaxu in "[dead]"

yaxu — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:27:11 +0000

£37 paywall to read a critique of academic research culture? Ironic.

New comment by yaxu in "FFmpeg Explorer"

yaxu — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 20:08:53 +0000

Is it idiotic to punch nazis now?