wide

wide is a polyphonic instrument, multi-instrument, DSLish/API MIDI sequencer for live coding music. It sends MIDI messages to any stand-alone synthesiser or DAW.

Dependencies

RtMidi library

Live coding

cling (an interative C++ interpreter) is for the live coding enverionment.

Or you still can compile/link wide as any other c++ library and code with it as so.

How to use it

1. run cling in terminal

2. at cling prompt load wide by typing the following line:

.x <path to>wide.cpp

3. after message "wide is on <((()))>" appears, type:

i(1).play(n(({0,2,4}),0.9,{4},4)) // Instrument "1" sends "C Major" chord notes to midi channel 1, 0.9 amplitude, 1/4 duration and 4th octave

the same as

i(1).play(n((CMaj),0.9,{4},4)) // Instrument's scale defaults C Major scale

or

i(1).play(n(({0}),0.5,({4,8,4,8,4}),5)) // Instrument "1" sends c note to midi channel 1, 0.5 amplitude, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4, 1/8, 1/4 duration sequence and 5th octave