tidal

Pattern language for improvised music

http://tidalcycles.org/

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Module documentation for 1.9.5

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Language for live coding algorithmic patterns

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(c) Alex McLean and contributors, 2022

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Changes

TidalCycles log of changes

1.9.5 - Sashiko

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/v1.9.4...v1.9.5

1.9.4 - Stitch

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/v1.9.3...v1.9.4

1.9.3 - Kolam

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/v1.9.2...v1.9.3

1.9.2 - Siteswap c

Same with 1.9.1, but now with new tidal-link version 1.0.1

1.9.1 - Siteswap b

A quick release to set specific tidal-link version 1.0 in tidal.cabal. Stack seems to want this.

1.9.0 - Siteswap

What’s Changed

General enhancements

New ableton link support

Emacs plugin updates

Tidal-parse (estuary) updates

Maintenance

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/v1.8.0...v1.9.0

1.8.1 - Sanquhar b

  • Removed executable from tidal.cabal file (while latest ghc on windows fails to build it)

1.8.0 - Sanquhar

  • move tidal-listener code by @polymorphicengine in #885
  • Fix a typo incurred (I assume) by a filename change. by @JeffreyBenjaminBrown in #886
  • Hide contexts from Events per default by @polymorphicengine in #887
  • Allow sending/receiving of broadcasted OSC control messages by @yaxu in #894
  • tidal-listener: Add minimal install notes by @gamar3is in #895
  • Add rolled function with variants by @thgrund in #820
  • Valuable instance for Note by @yaxu in #899
  • Add parsers for ints and floats that don’t consume trailing whitespace by @polymorphicengine in #900
  • Introduce echo and echoWith, deprecate stut and stutWith by @ndr-brt in #904
  • tidal-listener: Optional WITH_GHC environment variable by @mindofmatthew in #903

Commit list: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/1.7.10...v1.8.0

1.7.10 - Tama b

1.7.9 - Tama

What’s Changed

New Contributors

Full Changelog: https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/compare/1.7.8...1.7.9

1.7.8 - Ayatakedai

  • Add pattern id to patterns as id, and send it with /code/highlights

1.7.7 - Caramel wafer

  • Support hosc 0.19 in test suite @yaxu

1.7.6 - Tunnocks

  • Fix dot shorthand in int patterns so floating point numbers raise an error @ndr-brt
  • Support factors in ratio shorthand for rational patterns @ndr-brt
  • support hosc 0.19 @yaxu

1.7.5 - Dalbeattie

  • Minor change to _splice so that it respects if the speed parameter was already declared @onthepeakofnormal
  • Some tests for chords @cleary
  • Remove direct semigroups dependency @yaxu
  • Derive functor for pattern @yaxu
  • Handle negative ratio shorthands for rationals @ndr_brt
  • drawLine - draw non-events with periods @yaxu
  • Parse chord without root note @yaxu
  • Fix clock sharing between tidal processes @yaxu

1.7.4 - Symonds Yat b

  • Fixes for bipolar waveforms (sine2, etc) @mindofmatthew
  • More playback controls for OSC API @mindofmatthew
  • Disable bus variants for MIDI controls @mindofmatthew

1.7.3 - Symonds Yat

  • Signed ratio shorthands now supported @ndr_brt
  • OSC API - mute/unmute stream @mindofmatthew
  • improve performance of playFor/seqP @yaxu
  • Expand tests with autodiscovered laws @RSWilli
  • Add getState to BootTidal @mindofmatthew
  • add fadeTime / fadeInTime / fadeOutTime params for grain envelopes @yaxu
  • Fix for nrpnn and nrpnv params @yaxu
  • Disable busses for MIDI parameters @mindofmatthew

1.7.2 - IKLECTIK c

  • tidal-parse additions and improved errors, haskellish dependency fix @dktr0
  • spring cleaning and delinting, recreated Time.hs, renamed ControlMap toValueMAp @yaxu
  • start of major refactoring of chords @cleary
  • fix . mininotation operator @zudov
  • stateful event parameters, for counting @yaxu
  • Move some stuff from BootTidal.hs to the tidal library, to reduce dependencies there @yaxu

1.7.1 - IKLECTIK b

  • Fix stack build @yaxu
  • Add tidal_status command @yaxu
  • Add cVerbose config setting (default on) @yaxu
  • Fix for emacs plugin @jwaldmann
  • Snowball bugfix @yaxu
  • Migrate to github actions, tested against additional ghc versions @ndr_brt
  • Fix mininotation bug - allow leading/trailing spaces @ndr_brt
  • Make linger work with negative numbers (to linger on end of cycle rather than start) @yaxu
  • Friendlier startup messages @yaxu
  • Compatibility with ghc 9.0.1 @yaxu

1.7 - IKLECTIK

  • Added drum aliases from GM2 percussion spec to drum function @lvm
  • getcps helper function now in BootTidal.hs @yaxu
  • getnow helper function back in BootTidal.hs (returns current cycle) @bgold-cosmos
  • Developments towards tidal api, @yaxu et al
  • coarse parameter is now floating point @lwlsn
  • irand parameter now patternable @ndr-brt
  • note now produces its own type to avoid conflicts between parsing note names and duration shorthands @ndr-brt
  • Numerous tidal-parse improvements and additions @dktr0 et al
  • grain function for combining begin and end (in terms of begin and duration) @khoparzi
  • Added missing pB and pR functions @thgrund
  • Emacs plugin bugfixes @jwaldmann
  • binaryN parameters now fully patternable @ndr-brt
  • press and pressBy functions for syncopation @yaxu
  • bite’s first parameter is now patternable @ndr-brt
  • Most SuperDirt control/effect parameters can now be modified while a sound is playing, using ‘bus’ functions. @telefon + @yaxu
  • Sound.Tidal.Params is now generated by a script in bin/generate-params.hs @yaxu
  • qtrigger is now an alias for ctrigger, which now quantises to the next cycle (via ceiling) @thgund / @yaxu
  • There is now also ftrigger and rtrigger for floor (previous) and round (nearest) cycle
  • whenmod’s first two parameters are now rationals, and patternable. @th-four / @yaxu
  • brand and brandBy for continuous patterns of boolean values @yaxu
  • Two-way protocol between Tidal and SuperDirt, initially to receive available busses @telefon / @yaxu
  • bipolar waveforms - sine2, square2, tri2, saw2, cosine2 @yaxu

1.6.1 - We are not DJs

  • Patternise first parameter of chunk @lwlsn
  • Patternise fit parameter @bgold-cosmos
  • Increase upper bounds of random @yaxu
  • Switch travis to ubuntu bionic @yaxu

1.6.0 - Keep live coding live

  • Rollback to previous pattern on parse error @jwaldmann
  • Increased strictness to catch parse errors earlier @jwaldmann @yaxu
  • Support for superdirt ‘panic’ @yaxu
  • Increase hosc upper bounds to admin 0.18
  • New function ‘splat’ @yaxu
  • quantise now uses round, add qfloor, qceiling variants and qround alis @lwlsn
  • Add ghc 8.8.3 to travis @jwaldmann
  • Switch substruct to use binary pattern @yaxu

1.5.2 - Rivelin

  • Fix streamAll

1.5.1 - Blacka Moor

  • Bugfix splice

1.5.0 - Active travel

  • Export drawLineSz @mxmxyz
  • tidal-parse additions (bite, splice, pickF, select, squeeze; fixed slice) @dktr0
  • New, more efficient pseudorandom number generator @dktr0
  • Pattern first someCyclesBy param @bgold-cosmos
  • Refactored, more flexible OSC targetting @yaxu
  • Simplify tidal-boot-script in tidal.el @jamagin
  • Support state substitution in mininotation #530 @yaxu
  • Pattern first parameter of splice #656 @yaxu
  • Pattern first parameter of chew @yaxu
  • add ‘x’ fraction alias for 1/6 @yaxu
  • add dfb alias for delayfeedback param, dt for delaytime @yaxu
  • add unmuteAll and only to BootTidal.hs @yaxu

1.4.9 - Housebound spirit

  • Simplify ‘show’ing of patterns @yaxu
  • New draw function for drawing a pattern of single characters as a text-based diagram, with friends drawLine and drawLineSz for drawing multiple cycles @yaxu
  • Fixes and expansions of ratio aliases - s should be a sixteenth @mxmxyz, w is now 1, f is now 0.2
  • Simplify definition of accumulate using scanl @benjwadams
  • The first parameter of someCyclesBy is now patternable @bgold-cosmos

1.4.8 - Limerick

  • Add ratio shorthand to floating point patterns @yaxu
  • Support fractional scales, add Arabic scales @quakehead
  • Additions to tidal-parse including support from overgain, overshape adn rot @dktr0
  • Move prompt-cont setting to end of BootTidal.hs (older versions of Haskell crash out at this point) @ndr-brt

1.4.7 - Bleep

  • Fix BootTidal.hs - make loadable in atom @bgold-cosmos
  • More additions to tidal-parse @dktr0

1.4.6 - Megatron

  • Experimental ratio shorthand ref #573 @yaxu
  • Store mininotation source location(s) in events ref #245 @yaxu
  • Add more things to tidal-parse @dktr0 @yaxu
  • Separate out haskell parser from tidal-parse into new hackage module called ‘haskellish’ @dktr0
  • Support patterning polyrhythmic % steps in mininotation @yaxu
  • Fixes to emacs plugin (tidal.el) @xmacex
  • New parameters for freq, overgain, overshape, and missing midi params including the new nrpn ones @yaxu

1.4.5 - Porter Brook

  • Mini notation - @ (and its alias _) now accepts rational relative durations. E.g. a [email protected] c d to make b have a half step (that would be the same as a@2 b c@2 c@d). This can also be patterned a b@<0.5 2> c d @yaxu #435
  • Experimental reset function - stick in a pattern so it acts as though the cycle number was reset to 0, from the next cycle @yaxu
  • Bugfix for setR in BootTidal.hs @yaxu
  • Mini notation - !, @ and _ now work properly within {} and <>, e.g. <a b ! c!3 d> will repeat every 7 cycles @yaxu #369 #248
  • Mini notation - @ and _ are now aliases for each other, e.g. a_3 is the same as a@3 as are _ and @ @yaxu #369
  • Frame skipping on clock jumps now configurable @yaxu #567
  • Sync between tidal instances now works straight away, without having to setcps @yaxu #569
  • New while function for applying a function selectively according to a binary pattern @yaxu
  • Lowercases aliases slowappend and fastappend for slowAppend and fastAppend respectively @yaxu
  • Many tidal-parse updates @dktr0

1.4.4 - Chee Dale

  • wrandcat (weighted randcat) @yaxu
  • MIDI Sysex support #558 @yaxu
  • Elements in an Open Sound Control path address can now be patterned #557
  • ‘once’ now chooses a random cycle to play. To get the old behaviour of playing the first cycle, use ‘first’ @yaxu #476
  • Make random choices in mini-notation behave independently @yaxu #560
  • Add [a|b|c] syntax to mini notation for randomly choosing between subsequences @yaxu #555
  • Add power pattern operators |**, | and || @yaxu

1.4.3 - Stanage Edge

  • Fix for xfade / xfadein transition
  • New function plyWith

1.4.2 - Higger Tor

  • Fix for ‘nudge’

1.4.1 - Carl Wark

  • improvements to handling of cps changes @yaxu #501
  • fix for parameter patterning in ‘range’ @yaxu #547

1.4.0 - Padley Gorge

  • fix representation to handle continuous and analog events properly @yaxu

1.3.0 - rolled back to 1.1.2

1.2.0 - Hunters Bar

  • Simplify <* and *>, removing any distinction between analogue and digital patterns

1.1.2 - Eccy Road

  • Usability fix for binary / binaryN (use squeezeJoin on input pattern)

1.1.1 - Chelsea Park

  • Usability fixes for binary / binaryN / ascii @yaxu

1.1.0 - Brincliffe Edge

  • binary and ascii functions for playing with bit patterns @yaxu
  • support chord inversions in chord parser @bgold-cosmos
  • skip ticks when system clock jumps @yaxu
  • fix crash bugs in mini notation parser and grp @yaxu
  • new stitch function @yaxu
  • |++, ++| and |++| for combining patterns of strings by concatenation @yaxu
  • send best effort of a sound id to dirt / superdirt if sendParts is on, allowing parameter adjustment of previously triggered sound (without chopping) @yaxu
  • qtrigger - quantise trigger to nearest cycle @yaxu
  • add setI, setF et al to BootTidal.hs for setting state variables @yaxu
  • BootTidal.hs now sends d1 .. d12 to orbits 0 .. 11 respectively @yaxu
  • markov chain support with runMarkov and markovPat @bgold-cosmos
  • simplify / fix mask and sew @yaxu
  • Adjust <* and > (and therefore |+, +| etc) to be closer to <>, explanation here: https://penelope.hypotheses.org/1722 @yaxu
  • extract minitidal into its own package tidal-parse (using cabal multipackages), renaming to Sound.Tidal.Parse @yaxu @dktr0
  • benchmarking @nini-faroux
  • minitidal refactor, support for parsing more of tidal, tests @dktr0

1.0.14 - IICON

  • ‘chew’ - like bite, but speeds playback rate up and down
  • variable probability for ? in mini notation
  • chooseBy takes modulo of index to avoid out of bounds errors
  • ‘rate’ control param
  • Fix dependencies for parsec/colour

1.0.13 - 🐝⌛️🦋 #2

  • Simplify espgrid support - @yaxu

1.0.12 - 🐝⌛️🦋

  • Fix ESPGrid support - @dktr0
  • Add ‘snowball’ function - @XiNNiW

1.0.11 - Cros Bríde

2019-04-17 Alex McLean [email protected]

  • Add bite function for slicing patterns (rather than samples)
  • Tweak tidal.el to attempt to infer location of default BootTidal.hs
  • Skip time (forward or backward) if the reference clock jumps suddenly
  • Fix fit - @bgold-cosmos
  • Remove ‘asap’
  • Add cB for boolean control input
  • pickF for choosing between functions with a pattern of integers
  • select for choosing between list of patterns with a floating point pattern
  • squeeze for choosing between list of patterns with a pattern of integers, where patterns are squeezed into the integer event duration
  • splice for choosing between slices of a pattern, where the slices are squeezed into event duration
  • Ord and Eq instances for value type @bgold-cosmos
  • trigger - support for resetting envelopes on evaluation
  • Support for rational event values
  • Tweak how *> and <* deal with analog patterns
  • Caribiner link bridge support

1.0.10 - This machine also kills fascists

  • Add exports to Sound.Tidal.Scales for getScale and scaleTable

1.0.9 - This machine kills fascists

  • sec and msec functions for converting from seconds to cycles (for stut etc) @yaxu
  • template haskell upper bounds @yaxu
  • fix for multi-laptop sync/tempo sharing @yaxu
  • fix toScale so it doesn’t break on empty lists @bgold-cosmos
  • deconstruct function for displaying patterns stepwise @yaxu
  • djf control ready for new superdirt dj filter @yaxu
  • getScale for handrolling/adding scales to scale function * Add djf control for upcoming superdirt dj filter @yaxu

1.0.8 (trying to get back to doing these)

See also https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Changes_in_Tidal_1.0.x for earlier stuff)

  • Add ‘to’, ‘toArg’ and ‘from’ controls for new superdirt routing experiments - @telephon
  • Fixes for squeezeJoin (nee unwrap’) - @bgold-cosmos
  • Simplify cycleChoose, it is now properly discrete (one event per cycle) - @yaxu
  • The return of <>, infix alias for overlay - @yaxu
  • Fix for wedge to allow 0 and 1 as first parameter - @XiNNiW
  • Support for new spectral fx - @madskjeldgaard
  • Fix for _euclidInv - @dktr0
  • chordList for listing chords - @XiNNiW
  • new function soak - @XiNNiW
  • tempo fixes - @bgold-cosmos
  • miniTidal developments - @dktr0
  • potentially more efficient euclidean patternings - @dktr0
  • unit tests for euclid - @yaxu
  • fix for sometimesBy - @yaxu

0.9.10 (and earlier missing versions from this log)

  • arpg, a function to arpeggiate
  • within’, an alternate within with a different approach to time, following discussion here https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal/issues/313
  • sine et al are now generalised so can be used as double or rational patterns
  • New Sound.Tidal.Simple module with a range of simple transformations (faster, slower, higher, lower, mute, etc)
  • slice upgraded to take a pattern of slice indexes
  • espgrid support
  • lindenmayerI
  • sew function, for binary switching between two patterns
  • somecycles alias for someCycles
  • ply function, for repeating each event in a pattern a given number of times within their original timespan
  • patternify juxBy, e, e’, einv, efull, eoff

0.9.7

Enhancements

  • The note pattern parameter is no longer an alias for midinote, but an independent parameter for supercollider to handle (in a manner similar to up)

0.9.6

Enhancements

  • Added chord for chord patterns and scaleP for scale patterns
  • The n pattern parameter is now floating point

0.9.5

Enhancements

  • Added hurry which both speeds up the sound and the pattern by the given amount.
  • Added stripe which repeats a pattern a given number of times per cycle, with random but contiguous durations.
  • Added continuous function cosine
  • Turned more pattern transformation parameters into patterns - spread’, striateX, every’, inside, outside, swing
  • Added experimental datatype for Xenakis sieves
  • Correctly parse negative rationals
  • Added breakUp that finds events that share the same timespan, and spreads them out during that timespan, so for example (breakUp “[bd,sn]”) gets turned into the “bd sn”
  • Added fill which ‘fills in’ gaps in one pattern with events from another.

0.9.4

Fixes

  • Swapped - for .. in ranges as quick fix for issue with parsing negative numbers
  • Removed overloaded list thingie for now, unsure whether it’s worth the dependency

0.9.3

Enhancements

  • The sequence parser can now expand ranges, e.g. "0-3 4-2" is equivalent to "[0 1 2 3] [4 3 2]"
  • Sequences can now be described using list syntax, for example sound ["bd", "sn"] is equivalent to sound "bd sn". They aren’t lists though, so you can’t for example do sound (["bd", "sn"] ++ ["arpy", "cp"]) – but can do sound (append ["bd", "sn"] ["arpy", "cp"])
  • New function linger, e.g. linger (1/4) will only play the first quarter of the given pattern, four times to fill the cycle.
  • discretise now takes time value as its first parameter, not a pattern of time, which was causing problems and needs some careful thought.
  • a rel alias for the release parameter, to match the att alias for attack
  • _fast alias for _density
  • The start of automatic testing for a holy bug-free future

Fixes

  • Fixed bug that was causing events to double up or get lost, e.g. where rev was combined with certain other functions.