Tidal Cycles

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Tidal Cycles is a live-coding environment for algorithmic musical patterns, written in Haskell and widely used in performance and composition contexts. It emphasizes expressive time-based pattern language design, enabling rapid construction of polyrhythmic and generative structures. In practical workflows, it commonly pairs with SuperCollider for synthesis and MIDI output while remaining extensible through a broader ecosystem of related tools.

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license: open source
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