Hacking in Ableton Live in Scheme Lisp via Scheme for Max (video intro)

[iainduncan]

Hi friends, I have just put a video introduction to hacking in Ableton Live in Scheme Lisp with my project, Scheme for Max.

Scheme for Max is a free and open-source extension to Max/MSP that enables you to script and live-code Max and Max for Live using s7 Scheme Lisp, a Scheme interpreter designed for computer music from CCRMA (Stanford) You can use s4m for live-coding, building sequencers, generative music, scripting the Live API, making control surfaces, and lots more! In this video I demonstrate the example Live devices included in Scheme for Max 0.4

If you are familiar with the world of lisp computer music tools, this is a lot like Common Music (and indeed uses the same Scheme interpreter), but includes extensive Max integration functionality, such as table/buffer/dict i/o, scheduler integration, etc. It works very well for building complex real time sequencers that you can update in real-time, while they play!

Video intro here:


Get Scheme for Max from GitHub https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max/releases

Happy to answer any questions!