Tidal Sounds won't work properly

MariaAristya · November 11, 2020, 9:08am

Hello everyone!,
I recently tried to install tidalcycles, it's quite confusing at first, but then it is. Since i already got everything installed, but then the problem started when i tried to boot Tidalcycles from Atom. Here's the screenshot:

Somehow i couldnt play more than one sound in Tidal, such as samples and even the synth.
I currently use Mac with Catalina 10.15.7.

mattia.paterna · November 11, 2020, 10:45am

does that mean that you can only hear the sample once every time you execute the code, or only when you start Tidal?

Some more debug questions:

have you checked in the SuperCollider Post window if anything happened?
have you checked this link?

MariaAristya · November 11, 2020, 10:48am

Only one sound everytime it executed

MariaAristya · November 11, 2020, 11:50am

Yes, but nothing seems weird on it.
I also checked the link, but i'm not sure if i understand it. I tried to install "stack" but instead it shows something like this:

yaxu · November 11, 2020, 10:58pm

Hi @MariaAristya,
Hmm that's a strange problem ..

So when you run d1 $ s "bd", you only hear the sound once, not repeating?

MariaAristya · November 12, 2020, 1:32am

Hallo @yaxu,
It is repeating, but when I combine it with another sound or synth by using stack, the secondary sound just wont come out.

cleary · November 12, 2020, 3:50am

I see you've got a sample (bd) and a synth (superchip) - these have some different behaviours:

d1 $ stack [
    s "bd*16",
    s "superchip*8"
]

What happens if you use another sample instead of the superchip synth?

d1 $ stack [
    s "bd*16",
    s "hh*8"
]

What happens if you change your superchip synth as follows:

d1 $ stack [
    s "bd*16",
    note "c" # s "superchip*8"
]

yaxu · November 12, 2020, 9:51am

Hi @MariaAristya,
I think this is because when the pattern runs over multiple lines, you have to run it in a different way.

Make sure there is a blank line above and below the pattern, so it's separated by any other lines of code
Put your cursor on it
Run it with alt-enter, or I think on a mac it is cmd-enter

If you use shift-enter, it will only run a single line of code

MariaAristya · November 12, 2020, 11:19am

Hi @yaxu,
It's working rightnow, but i figured it out when i use the "superchip" synth the sound doesn't came out. But now i tried it with "superpiano" and it worked! I don't why the sound with "superchip" won't come out. This is the codes that i use:

MariaAristya · November 12, 2020, 11:20am

@yaxu

this is what i got on the SuperCollider:

mattia.paterna · November 12, 2020, 12:02pm

Try this in SuperCollider:

(
SuperDirt.default = ~dirt;
(type: \dirt, s: \superchip, out: 0, n: 60).play
)

Do you hear any sound?

MariaAristya · November 14, 2020, 8:06am

Hello,
yes it's working, but there is a short high-pitched coming out

mattia.paterna · November 14, 2020, 10:56am

And this is how it should sound.
@cleary is right: superchip needs the note parameter for it to sound when you call it from within Tidal.
Therefore

d1 $ note "c" # s "superchip"

will work, whereas

d1 $ s "superchip"

will not.