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Tidal 1.0.0 has now been released, with significant changes since the previous version. Please let us know if you spot anything strange or amiss!
Setting things up
- Installation
- Installation troubleshooting
- Configuration
- Custom Samples
- MIDI
- Separate audio outputs
- Multichannel sound
Keywords, functions and operators
- Elemental patterns - Oscillators and other patterns
- Functions - for transforming and combining patterns
- Control functions - For making patterns of effects, etc.
- All the functions - The long list, including internal and undocumented functions
Working with patterns
- Tutorial
- Interaction
- Controller Input
- Understanding the $
- Combining pattern structure
- Tidal workshop worksheet - designed for workshops, useful even if you're not in one!
Understanding innards
External Resources
Video tutorials
Written tutorials
Academic publications, etc
Open access publications on Tidal and related things.
- McLean, Alex, & Harlizius-Klück, Ellen. (2018). Fabricating Algorithmic Art. In Parsing Digital (pp. 10–21). London, UK: Austrian Cultural Forum. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2155745
- McLean, Alex, Fanfani, Giovanni, & Harlizius-Klück, Ellen. (2018). Cyclic Patterns of Movement Across Weaving, Epiplokē and Live Coding. Dancecult. Journal of Electronic Music Dance Culture, 10(1), 5–30. http://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2018.10.01.01
- McLean, Alex, & Dean, Roger. (2018). Algorithmic Trajectories. In Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228959
- Magnusson, Thor, & McLean, Alex. (2018). Performing with Patterns of Time. In Oxford Handbook of Algorithmic Music. Oxford University Press. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1193251
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