Music Programming Resources

This page contains resources related to the talk I presented at Snowball on March 19^th, 2016.

Resources for Pd

• here's where to get started with Pd

• some additional resources for when you're starting to learn Pd

• a collection of Pd tutorials and HOWTO documents

• the FLOSS Pd manual

• Programming Electronic Music in Pd, a book by Johannes Kreidler

• a tutorial on creating a simple synthesizer in Pd:
  • part 1
  • part 2
  • part 3

• a wonderful series of tutorial videos on Pd

Resources for ChucK

• the ChucK home page

• the official ChucK documentation collection

• here's where to get started with ChucK

• the ChucK manual (PDF format)

• the FLOSS ChucK manual

• Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists, a textbook about ChucK written by the creators of the language

• a two-part tutorial on MIDI programming with ChucK:
  • part 1
  • part 2

Resources for MIDI

the MIDI Association home page provides detailed specifications of the MIDI protocol, including reference tables on MIDI messages, control changes, etc.

• Dominique Vandenneucker's music software development page includes a MIDI tutorial for programmers

• a guide to using MIDI on Linux

[ SMW, March 2016 ]