I am building a SaaS startup in stealth mode (probably will apply YC)—finding it challenging to balance time between the startup and open-source projects. Ironically, it felt easier at my previous job as employee in a startup: work during office hours, open-source on the side.
Now I spend my free time playing my Fender and exploring ways to combine music with programming, maybe using LLMs for copilot performances.
Any aspirations to add more song-level concepts like arrangement, chord progression, and/or semantic meaning? Right now it excels at creating short loops but I'm not seeing a good way to get a sense of movement and purpose (short of hand-coding everything)
https://github.com/chaosprint/glicol/discussions/114
But it's not complete yet. I have indeed been considering chords, but the syntax needs more changes and design.
But according to your description, https://strudel.cc/ can bring you a lot of fun.
Compared with Strudel/Tidal, Glicol provides more on precise time control in audio engine, low-level sound synthesis and sampling capabilities (needs more development but completely feasible).