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Common Music (CM) is a real-time music composition system implemented in C++ and Scheme. It generates musical output via MIDI, OSC, CLM, FOMUS and CSOUND. Its user application is called GRACE (Graphical Real-time Algorithmic Composition Environment)

computing audio

Keyboard trigger for interactive buffer evaluation

plot of random values with histogram

plot of midi file (bach fugue)

Plot window with three envelopes (layers)

cellular automata with state window (conway's game of life)

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Project Members:

• David Psenicka
• Halim Beere
• Michael Klingbeil
• Rick Taube (admin)
• anders
• todd ingalls

[Frank Maurer]

Having great trouble getting this running! Tried running "Notes from the Meta Level"Chapter 6 cmapp.cm in Grace but comes up with errors (scale unbound variable pprint unbound variable)
Is there any help available to get this going?
Thanks
Frank

[Rick Taube]

Hello Frank, Im sorry for your troubles. The problme is that the code in the book is much older than the Grace program so you would either need to “translate” that code into the newer system, or use the codebase that was existed when then book was published. I believe the book came with a CD, it might be possible to get that source code working.
I hope this helps!

Rick Taube

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School of Music
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: taube@illinois.edutaube@illinois.edu
President, Illiac Software Inc.
https://harmonia.illiacsoftware.com/
Email: taube@illiacsoftware.com

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Having great trouble getting this running! Tried running "Notes from the Meta Level"Chapter 6 cmapp.cm in Grace but comes up with errors (scale unbound variable pprint unbound variable)
Is there any help available to get this going?
Thanks
Frank

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[Frank Maurer]

Thanks that explains it. I am trying to translate the code in the book
using the examples in the program Help menu.
Just one thing I havn't figured out yet. If I open a file with a lot of
function definitions in it do I have to evaluate each function severalty by
placing the cursor at the end and pressing Ctrl+Enter or is there a way to
evaluate the whole file in one go?
Thanks
Frank

On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 at 13:53, Rick Taube taube@users.sourceforge.net
wrote:

Hello Frank, Im sorry for your troubles. The problme is that the code in
the book is much older than the Grace program so you would either need to
“translate” that code into the newer system, or use the codebase that was
existed when then book was published. I believe the book came with a CD, it
might be possible to get that source code working.
I hope this helps!

Rick Taube

Chair, Composition/Theory
School of Music
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Email: taube@illinois.edutaube@illinois.edu
President, Illiac Software Inc.
https://harmonia.illiacsoftware.com/
Email: taube@illiacsoftware.com

On Feb 21, 2021, at 11:23 AM, Frank Maurer
fm42@users.sourceforge.netfm42@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

Having great trouble getting this running! Tried running "Notes from the
Meta Level"Chapter 6 cmapp.cm in Grace but comes up with errors (scale
unbound variable pprint unbound variable)
Is there any help available to get this going?
Thanks
Frank

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[Eddie Nelson]

I like how it explains the features and functions of Common Music, as well as provides examples and tutorials for beginners and advanced users. I also appreciate the links to other resources and forums related to Common Music phrazle. This wiki is a great way to learn more about this powerful and creative tool for music making.

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[Loyd Rodriguez]

How does the integration of multiple output formats like MIDI, OSC, and geometry dash breeze CSOUND enhance the versatility of the GRACE application in real-time music composition?

[Brent Feest]

What are the practical applications of using graphical representations, such as histograms and envelope plots, in real-time music 101 games composition and audio computing?