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alda.now

alda.now, when coupled with alda.lisp, provides a way to work with Alda scores and play music programmatically within a Clojure application.

alda.now provides a play! macro, which evaluates the body, finds any new note events that were added to the score, and plays them.

Example usage of alda.now in a Clojure application:

(require '[alda.lisp :refer :all])
(require '[alda.now  :refer (set-up! play!)])

(score*)
(part* "upright-bass")

; This is optional. If left out, Alda will set up the MIDI synth the first
; time you tell it to play something.
(set-up! :midi)

(play!
  (octave 2)
  (note (pitch :c) (duration (note-length 8)))
  (note (pitch :d))
  (note (pitch :e))
  (note (pitch :f))
  (note (pitch :g) (duration (note-length 4))))

Of note, alda.repl uses alda.now to play the score the user is creating during the REPL session, so you could think of alda.repl as an alda.now sample project.

MIDI soundfonts

The default JVM soundfont sounds pretty bad. If you're using Alda in a Clojure application and you want to have nice MIDI sounds, you can use midi.soundfont to load FluidR3 or another MIDI soundfont into the JVM at runtime.