crunch/clockwise

I'm Alpha

This is an early release of a library for managing MIDI controllers within SuperCollider.

I'm running it as part of my live performance set up, so I know it works reliably... but the API probably could be polished a fair bit, and I'm sure there is missing useful functionality.

Oh yeah, and there is no SuperCollider help docs for it yet... just this file!

What is This?

This is a library for connecting various MIDI controllers and devices with a SuperCollider patch, and with each other. It's aim is to make connecting them up very easy, in as few lines of code as possible. And to support a style more like connecting things togther rather than SC's event like MIDI programming.

Here's a very simple example, connecting some MIDI knobs to a synth:

r = { |freq=256.0, speed=6, volume=0.3|
    Ringz.ar(Impulse.ar(speed, 0, volume), freq, 0.5)
}.play;

(
MIDIIn.connectAll;
c = ClockWise(r);
CmdPeriod.add(c);

c.midiDevice(\nk, "nanoKontrol", inOnly:true);

c.synthArg(\freq, \midfreq.asSpec);
c.midiCC(\freq, \nk, 0, 14);

c.synthArg(\speed, ControlSpec(1, 20));
c.midiCC(\speed, \nk, 0, 15);

c.synthArg(\volume, \amp.asSpec);
c.midiCC(\volume, \nk, 0, 2);
)

Many more complex routings are possible. In my rig I have:

• knobs and faders controlling about two dozen synth params
• knobs and faders that remap to controls on two external synths
• keyboard controller, switchable (via other MIDI buttons) to route to the two synths, on four different MIDI channels)
• MIDI clock sent to all devices & the synth, controlled by encoders
• timers displayed on the LED display of a MIDI controller.

What's Here?

This is a Quark - you can install it with:

Quarks.install("https://github.com/mzero/crunch-clockwise.git");

or if you downloaded it:

Quarks.install("~/Downloads/crunch-clockwise");

Once installed, look up the doc for the class ClockWise.

PBJ?!?!

Also in this directory is the giant file pbj.scd. This is my live rig set up! Probably not directly usable, unless you happen to have a Digitakt, a PreenFM2, a FaderFox UC44, and a Launchpad Pro.... But a deep example of the kinds of stuff you can do with this.

Feel free to adapted, and send me links to your performances!