Thread: Ask me about Python

Originally Posted by DuB

I need to write a python program soon which generates simple musical sequences (monophonic) in real-time according to various parameters. Tone quality is not essential but reliability and efficiency are (and ease of use is a bonus). Do you have any recommendations on libraries etc.?

I haven't done any audio programming but it looks like pyo is your best bet. It's written in C so it should be very low overhead to call into. If you write correct python code, then efficiency and reliability shouldn't be a problem. I can surely help with that but It's hard to say more without knowing what your parameters are and how they map to output.

Originally Posted by PhilosopherStoned

I haven't done any audio programming but it looks like pyo is your best bet. It's written in C so it should be very low overhead to call into. If you write correct python code, then efficiency and reliability shouldn't be a problem. I can surely help with that but It's hard to say more without knowing what your parameters are and how they map to output.

Thanks, I'll look into pyo.

To answer your question about the parameters I'm planning on using, I recently wrote a very brief paper (~1500 words) for some of the faculty in my department which summarizes the experiment I'll be using the program for. I think it offers enough detail to give a sufficient picture of the kind of requirements I'm looking at. As a one-line summary, it is meant to investigate a potential feature of musical melodies which causes people to judge them as interesting and/or pleasing. That's right, we're doing science on music now, bitches; nothing is sacred. Anyway, I've uploaded a PDF of the paper here, to a site called filedropper.com, which I've never used before. Let me know if you have any problems accessing the paper.