Feedforward, an experimental editor for TidalCycles (c) Alex McLean 2021 Released under the terms of the GNU Public Licence version 3
https://github.com/yaxu/feedforward
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkgKuD6Yvog
Installation
Please let me ([email protected]) know if you get it installed on Windows 10 and how.
Installation on Debian
First install ncurses:
apt-get install libncurses5-dev
Install feedforward (into ~/.cabal/bin) with:
git clone http://github.com/yaxu/feedforward
cd feedforward
cabal install
Installation on Arch
Set these in ~/.cabal/config
library-vanilla: True
shared: True
executable-dynamic: True
program-default-options
ghc-options:
-dynamic
Then do a cabal update
Then clone latest Tidal repository and do a cabal install there.
git clone https://github.com/tidalcycles/Tidal.git
cd Tidal
cabal install
Then clone this repository, and execute the following
git clone https://github.com/yaxu/feedforward.git
cd feedforward
cabal update
cabal install c2hs
cabal install ncurses --flag force-narrow-library
cabal install
Mac OSX
If you do not have ncurses installed already,
you can install it on OSX with:
brew install ncurses
ncurses install info available at
https://gist.github.com/cnruby/960344#gistcomment-3236294
Next, install feedforward into ~/.cabal/bin with:
git clone http://github.com/yaxu/feedforward
cd feedforward
cabal install
Then follow the usage instructions below.
VU meters
To get in-text VU meters on patterns, switch on RMS sending from SuperDirt.
Before starting SuperDirt, do this: s.options.maxLogins = 8;
After starting SuperDirt (e.g. with SuperDirt.start), do this:
~dirt.startSendRMS;.
Do all this before starting feedforward.
The VU meters will also work if you use the latest develop version of superdirt.
Usage
At the moment it sends a lot of info to stderr, which you'll need to direct somewhere, e.g. by running like this:
feedforward 2> err.txt
If .cabal/bin isn't in your path, you could run it with:
~/.cabal/bin/feedforward 2> err.txt
At the time of writing..
- Some emacs keys work for navigation. (^n, ^p, ^a, ^e, ^b, ^f, ..)
- Alt-Enter to evaluate all the code in the buffer
- F2 replays a previous session (experimental)
- F10 quits
- ctrl-h hushes everything
- ctrl-l redraws the screen (in case something gets corrupted)
- Different patterns automatically get sent to different orbits
- There is no cut and paste yet
- Mouse clicks position the cursor on some terminals, but it's a bit clunky
- alt-0 .. alt-10 toggles patterns on and off
By default, feedforward will work with SuperDirt, running on the same
computer. To switch between Classic dirt and SuperDirt, edit
Feedback/Edit.hs and look for dirt = ... Set it to either dirt = Classic or dirt = Super.
The stuff in Drum/ is a server for laptop ensembles, for centralised
recording of keystrokes and for taking coordinated snapshots. Probably
not interesting to you just yet.
Contributions
This is very early stage software, but I'm nonetheless happy to hear bug reports: