Xi (pronounced /ˈzaɪ/) is a musical pattern language inspired in Tidal and SuperCollider for building higher-level musical constructs easily. It is implemented on the Ruby programming language.
Xi is only a patterns library, but can talk to different backends:
- SuperCollider
- MIDI devices
NOTE: Be advised that this project is in very early alpha stages. There are a multiple known bugs, missing features, documentation and tests.
melody = [1,4,7,8,9]
scale = [Scale.iwato, Scale.jiao]
fm.set degree: melody.p(1/2,1/8,1/8,1/8,1/16,1/8,1/8).seq(2),
gate: :degree,
detune: [0.1, 0.4, 0.4],
sustain: [1,2,3,10],
accelerate: [0.5, 0, 0.1],
octave: [3,4,5,6].p(1/3),
scale: scale.p(1/2),
amp: P.new { |y| y << rand * 0.2 + 0.8 }.p(1/2)
kick.set freq: s("xi.x .ix. | xi.x xx.x", 70, 200), amp: 0.8, gate: :freq
clap.set n: s("..x. xyz. .x.. .xyx", 60, 61, 60).p.decelerate(2),
gate: :n,
amp: 0.35,
pan: P.sin(16, 2) * 0.6,
sustain: 0.25
You will need Ruby 2.1+ installed on your system. Check by running ruby -v
. To install Xi you must install the core libraries and REPL, and then one
or more backends.
If you want to use Xi with SuperCollider:
$ gem install xi-lang xi-supercollider
Or with MIDI:
$ gem install xi-lang xi-midi
Then run Xi REPL with:
$ xi
There is a configuration file that is written automatically for you when run
for the first time at ~/.config/xi/init.rb
. You can add require lines and
define all the function helpers you want.
Becase Xi is still in alpha stage, you might want to clone the repository using Git instead:
$ git clone https://github.com/xi-livecode/xi
After that, change into the new directory and install gem dependencies with
Bundler. If you don't have Bundler installed, run gem install bundler
first.
Then:
$ cd xi
$ bundle install
$ rake install
You're done! Fire up the REPL using xi
.
After checking out the repo, run bundle
to install dependencies. Then, run
rake test
to run the tests.
To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install
. To
release a new version, update the version number in version.rb
, and then run
bundle exec rake release
, which will create a git tag for the version, push
git commits and tags, and push the .gem
file to
rubygems.org.
You can also try things on the REPL without installing the gem on your machine
by doing bundle exec bin/xi
.
Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/xi-livecode/xi. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.
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Copyright (c) 2017 Damián Emiliano Silvani
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