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Michael Edwards edited this page Jun 1, 2024 · 7 revisions

Welcome to the slippery-chicken wiki!

slippery-chicken is a Common Lisp and CLOS package for algorithmic composition.

These wiki entries represent spontaneous thoughts and solutions to various questions that have arisen during development and teaching. They are by no means all-encompassing.

The main webpage with extensive documentation is at www.michael-edwards.org/sc

slippery chicken outputs sound files, reaper files, Sound files, MIDI files, and score files in PDF, Lilypond, and MusicXML formats. It also outputs scores in antescofo~ format for use with Arshia Cont's score following external for Max/MSP.

Michael Edwards

installation

  1. quicklisp/asdf installation
  2. using github
  3. how to install slippery-chicken 'by hand' (deprecated)

slippery-chicken basics

  1. which instruments are available in the standard instrument-palette?
  2. how can I change the default directory for output?
  3. how can I change the range of instruments in the standard instrument-palette?
  4. how can I stop (or start) slippery chicken from opening score files automatically?
  5. how do I make a one-note rthm-seq with a chord?
  6. set-limits by section
  7. empty bars

advanced techniques

slippery-chicken objects

  1. combining bars
  2. combining chopped and unchopped rthm-seq palettes
  3. how can I 'roll-my-own' slippery-chicken

scores

  1. graphics files as marks
  2. three-quarter tone accidentals
  3. what to do when lilypond fails?
  4. tuplets with colons e.g 7:6

sound files

  1. how can I use clm play like a sampler?
  2. how do I output to csound or some other system?

misc

  1. updating sbcl & slippery-chicken
  2. sc as cac (computer-aided composition) by Rafael Valdez

post-generation editing

  1. how can I change pitches algorithmically?
  2. how can I edit the PDF files created by Lilypond or CMN using Inkscape?

emacs

  1. aquamacs customisation
  2. workflow (by Dan Ross)
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