Today, Strudel is 2 years old 🎂

To celebrate that, we’ve released version 1.0.0!

Some new features:

- Many improvements in superdough (audio engine): phaser effect, multichannel audio, better reverb, better envelopes, ….
- you can now run hydra in strudel
- slider function to nest a slider inside your code
- more MIDI features (midi cc in, midi clock out)
- Community Bakery: You can now share patterns to the website
- Blog Launched: https://strudel.cc/blog

Read more and watch the release video here: https://github.com/tidalcycles/strudel/releases/tag/v1.0.0

There is also a recap of 2023 blog post: https://strudel.cc/blog/#year-2 (you might need to hard refresh your browser to see it)

Thanks to everyone involved in whichever way possible 💗

Live coding: a user's manual is out this week, published open access by MIT Press. I have my copy already, after many years it's real!

I just put up a placeholder website, and will upload the pdf, epub and mobi ebook files there on Tuesday, maybe making a web version. It'd be interesting if people started contributing edits, adding extra chapters etc..

https://livecodingbook.toplap.org/

#introduction

My name is Raphael, I haven't really done anything yet here on Mastodon but I keep seing people introducing themselves so it's probably time for me to do the same thing.

I am a PhD student with a background in musicology, currently studying live coding and algorithmic music. While doing so, I found out that there is scene here in France of people willing to share that music and we started playing together (the #CookieCollective and so on..). It made my research much more interesting in return but also gave me new ideas to explore.

I am currently context switching a lot between programming my own live coding environment (https://sardine.raphaelforment.fr), preparing my manuscript and finding a balance between work, hobbies (open source software, synthesizers, music making) and daily life.

I don't really know a lot about Mastodon but it looks like it is still able to escape a tiny bit from the centralised web and it feels good. The bad thing is that I don't really trust social networks enough anymore to share anything personal now \o/

plugdata is getting an incredible new power: compiling to Python & C.

We can SMELL the microcontrollers! They’re RIGHT THERE.

If it can produce CircuitPython (which I think will require some custom Python-coded objects to handle GPIO, i2c, ADCs, etc), then there’s no further toolchain required. You’ll be able to draw a diagram and save it to a board and it will just run.

And THAT means it’s getting useful for any embedded programming, from RC vehicles to cosplay.

https://github.com/timothyschoen/PlugData