faust2tidalcycles

faust2tidalcycles is a python program, created to help users of TidalCycles in the faust audio effect adding process.

faust2tidalcycles works in adequacy with faust2supercollider, you need to have faust installed on your computer.

faust2tidalcycles has three arguments

• -p {0,1} , 1 to create the package, 0 == no package, 0 by default (optional for package installation)
• -i BootTidalPath, path to your BootTidal.hs (necessary in automatic installation mode)
• inputdsp : path to your DSP

/automatic_installation\

The real interesting thing is the automatic installation, just run the python program faust2tidalcycles with two argument :

• -i : the path to your BootTidal.hs
• inputdsp : path to your DSP

It will automatically write the where it has to be.

Exemple :

faust2tidalcycles -i /home/yourusername/.cabal/share/x86_64-linux-ghc-8.6.5/tidal-1.7.10/BootTidal.hs /myFaustDSPdir/MyEffect.dsp

/package_installation\

Create an installation package, with

• a faust2tidalcycles_installer python script,
• a directory named yourDSP.files2add with the different code extract for core-synth.scd core-modules.scd and BootTidal.hs,
• The class file and the .so file to put in Supercollider Extensions
• And a personalized HelpFile to verify name, inputs, outputs and parameters list.

Exemple :

faust2tidalcycles -p 1 /myFaustDSPdir/MyEffect.dsp

faust2tidalcycles create package files in your DSP location

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