feepogram

A tiny DSL for non-trivial bloopsaphone projects.

Briefly

require 'bloops' require 'feepogram'

bloops = Bloops.new bloops.tempo = 320

song = Feepogram.new(bloops) do sound :crunch, Bloops::NOISE do |s| s.punch = 0.5 end

sound :oooo, Bloops::SINE do |s|
 s.sustain = 2.0
end

sound :plink, Bloops::SQUARE do |s|
 s.punch = 1.0
end

def and_one
 phrase do
   oooo   " 1:c2 " * 8
   plink  " c d e f g a b + c - " * 4
 end
end

def and_two
 phrase do
   crunch " c2 4 c5 4 " * 8
   oooo   " 1:g2 " * 8
   plink  " c d e f g a b + c - " * 4
 end
end

2.times do
 and_one
 and_two
end

end

song.play

Right, So

sound initialises a bloopsaphone sound and defines a handy method for you. That's not the interesting part.

The Interesting Part

phrase defines a 32-beat phrase. Any instruments to which you don't assign a tune in the block are told to rest for 32 beats.

This makes it easy to decompose sections of your song into methods and repeat or comment out calls to them, which is something you'll definitely want to be doing if your song is more than 10 seconds long.

Yeah, that's it. There's definitely potential for more though! Like, well, I don't know. Potential, though.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2009 Aanand Prasad. See LICENSE for details.