Lich.js - A Networked Audio / Visual Live Coding Language.
Lich.js is currently under going heavy revision. The syntax is being completely rebuilt to resemble a dynamically typed haskell. Additionally, more audio and graphics features will be added as well as numerous performance optimizations. Not safe for use for now as it will likely be consistently broken for the next couple of months until the official 1.0 release.
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At the moment Lich.js is not officially released. If you still want to try it out you can get it up and running on your own computer but it will require a little work. There are still bugs, missing features, and essentially no documentation so don't expect a finished product. All that said, here are the instructions to try out Lich.js for yourself.
Lich.js is divided into two parts: a server and a client. To create a server you will first need Node.js installed on your computer. Node can be found here: http://nodejs.org/. If you're on Linux it should likely be in your standard repo, for instance in Ubuntu you can install it with:
sudo apt-get install nodejsNext you will need to use npm (node package manager) to install socket.io (a networking library) to the Lich.js local directory. In a unix based system (Linux/OSX) you can use the command line to do this as such:
cd /path/to/lich.js
npm install socket.ioAt this point you have all the dependancies for the server. Now you can just run this from the command line to get the server up (this should be run from the lich.js folder):
sudo node Networking/LichServer.jsNow all that's left is to open up Chrome (Firefox and Safari also work, but not as well) and go to 127.0.0.1 (or if you're doing this on a different computer, say your server, just point your browser at that computer's IP). Once the page has loaded you can test that everything is running by executing this code (use shift-return to execute a line of code) :
let testSynth freq => saw freq >> perc 0 0.2 0.3
testPattern ~> testSynth 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | (d2f major)
-- When you've heard enough
stop testPattern