Question

I have just finished
https://github.com/overtone/overtone/wiki/Getting-Started
which is fantastic.

Now, I would like to do more.

I’m a Math/CS Major, so I know what a fourier transform is; however, I have no music background. I would like to learn things like:

• simulating basic percussion instruments
• composing some short pieces.

However, I’m less interested in developing those skills from scratch, and more interested in having a nice tutorial/guided tour via clojure/overtone/supercollider.

[I find it faster to learn via tweaking something nice; rather than building from scratch for my first runs.]

Thanks!

Answer 1

I don’t know of any guided tour per se, but Overtone’s examples contain a wealth of code for synthesizing various instruments as well as composing pieces from those instruments and/or sampled instruments. I personally recommend bells.clj (synthesized bells + composition) and auto_dubstep.clj (synthesized drums + composition)