January 6 2021 22nds live from Berlin

Organized by Ljudmila

• Official installaton instructions: https://tidalcycles.org/Installation

For Mac OS X and Linux Debian I recommend to use:

• Tidal Bootstrap on Mac OS X and Linux Debian: https://github.com/tidalcycles/tidal-bootstrap

Or install one by one:

• Git https://git-scm.com/downloads

• Haskel https://www.haskell.org/

• TidalCycles https://tidalcycles.org

• Code editor - Atom OR Visual Studio Code:

  • Atom: https://atom.io/
    • Atom TydalCycles plugin: https://atom.io/packages/tidalcycles or https://github.com/tidalcycles/atom-tidalcycles
  • Visual Studio Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/
    • Visual Studio Code TidalCycles extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tidalcycles.vscode-tidalcycles

• SuperCollider (audio synthesis server) https://supercollider.github.io/

  • SC3 plugins (for the synths included in SuperDirt) https://supercollider.github.io/sc3-plugins/
  • SuperDirt (Tidal's Audio engine with synths and samples) https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt
  • Supercollider startup file which will let us use our samples https://github.com/musikinformatik/SuperDirt/blob/develop/superdirt_startup.scd NOTE: make sure your links to the files are correct. On Windows start the samples location with your drive, for example C:\\ and use backward slashes\ instead of / which are used on Mac and Linux.
  • Optionally you can also install Quarks and Vowel Quark
    • Quarks (utility that lets you browse the index of community contributed packages and install them) https://github.com/supercollider-quarks/quarks
    • Vowel Quark (optional) https://github.com/supercollider-quarks/Vowel

• About Workshop
• TidalCycles Course by Alex McLean

• Code: https://github.com/22nds/MANI
• Video: https://vimeo.com/427279482

• Environmental aspect - animals recorded, traffic sounds, sound polution
• Soundscapes in cities are so noisy
• Soundscapes from Ljubljana

• Nico, 1988 screenshot
• Audiorecorder (Zoom H4N Pro) or mobile phone or laptop microphone
• Headphones
• Windscreen - blocks wind sound
• Tripod
• Time and patience, gloves in the winter

• Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/
• Samples created by Niklas Reppel at Scratch Session (on-the-fly) Toplap Barcelona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcXfv2lmPog (Starts at 2:23:20)
• Review samples from SuperDirt - clean, short, frequencies
• Review recording - dirty, long
• Make the sample
  • Select the sample from the whole track and copy it
  • Create a new track and paste the sample
  • Remove excess silence at the start and the end
  • Cut out the sample with Z for crossings
  • Loop the sample (Shift + Space)
• Normalize
  • Select the whole track
  • Effect > Normalize
• Remove noise
  • Select noisy part
  • Effect > Noise Reduction and Get Noise profile
  • Select the whole track and apply Effect > Noise Reduction
• Add fade in / fade out if want it (Effects > Fade In / Effects > Fade Out)
• Play the sample again in a loop Shift + Space or Shift and Play button
• Edit the frequencies if needed
• Export as .wav file (File > Export)
• Add metadata to the sound file

• Create folders for similar sounds
• Number the files so that you always have a clear reference
• Open files folder in the Code editor to see available files

• Get the samples for the workshop on GitHub or use your own
• Start SuperCollider
• Add the sample files dierctory to startup (File > Open startup file) file and restart Supercollider. Example ~dirt.loadSoundFiles("/home/XXX/Desktop/samples/");
• Open the code editor

• Playing default samples
• BPM / CPM
• Playing soundscaping samples
• Tidal effects and filters

• Start with a clean sample, make a beat and then modify it

• Record in SuperCollider IDE s.makeGui; or Server > Start recording

• Audacity Manual https://manual.audacityteam.org/
• TidalCycles Documentation https://tidalcycles.org/index.php/Userbase
• “Learning TidalCycles” course by Alex McLean, the creator of TidalCycles https://blog.tidalcycles.org/shop/ - Part one is open for everybody
• Videos by Mike Hodnick: https://www.youtube.com/c/kindohm/videos
• Ableton: Get started Making Music https://learningmusic.ableton.com/index.html
• TidalCycles Cheat Sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yVCrMT2v1IH8JjUI2vK8bhmz2HGCw8yIOrTZEpCzumI/edit?usp=sharing